Darebu Cuo | |
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Tarap Tso | |
རྟ་རབས་མཚོ། ( Standard Tibetan) | |
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Sentinel-2 image (2022) | |
Location | Gêrzê County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet, China |
Coordinates | 32°29′41″N 83°12′56″E / 32.49472°N 83.21556°E |
Surface area | 21 km2 (8.1 sq mi) |
Surface elevation | 4,436 m (14,554 ft) |
Frozen | Winter |
Darebu Cuo or Darab Co ( Chinese: 达热布错; pinyin: darebu cuò) or Tarap Tso ( Tibetan: རྟ་རབས་མཚོ།, Wylie: rta rabs mtsho, THL: Tarap Tso) or Darebu Lake is a high-altitude alpine lake in Tibet, China. [1]
The lake is located at 4,436 m (14,554 ft) in Gêrzê County in Ngari Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region and it covers an area of 21 square km. [2]
China National Highway 317 passes through the south bank of the lake. And just below that road, another small alpine lake Oma Tso is located.[ citation needed]
In 2015, scientists from the Chinese Academy of Forestry found that the lake's ecosystem hosts seven species and has a diversity index of 2.1. [3] The most prominent species of the ecosystem is Bar-headed Goose. [3]
Darebu Cuo | |
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Tarap Tso | |
རྟ་རབས་མཚོ། ( Standard Tibetan) | |
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Sentinel-2 image (2022) | |
Location | Gêrzê County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet, China |
Coordinates | 32°29′41″N 83°12′56″E / 32.49472°N 83.21556°E |
Surface area | 21 km2 (8.1 sq mi) |
Surface elevation | 4,436 m (14,554 ft) |
Frozen | Winter |
Darebu Cuo or Darab Co ( Chinese: 达热布错; pinyin: darebu cuò) or Tarap Tso ( Tibetan: རྟ་རབས་མཚོ།, Wylie: rta rabs mtsho, THL: Tarap Tso) or Darebu Lake is a high-altitude alpine lake in Tibet, China. [1]
The lake is located at 4,436 m (14,554 ft) in Gêrzê County in Ngari Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region and it covers an area of 21 square km. [2]
China National Highway 317 passes through the south bank of the lake. And just below that road, another small alpine lake Oma Tso is located.[ citation needed]
In 2015, scientists from the Chinese Academy of Forestry found that the lake's ecosystem hosts seven species and has a diversity index of 2.1. [3] The most prominent species of the ecosystem is Bar-headed Goose. [3]