Palongcuo | |
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Sentinel-2 image (2021) | |
Location | Zhongba County, Tibet, China |
Coordinates | 30°54′3.6″N 83°36′3.6″E / 30.901000°N 83.601000°E |
Surface area | 141.33 km2 (54.57 sq mi) |
Surface elevation | 5,101 m (16,736 ft) |
Frozen | Winter |
Palongcuo or Palung Co ( Chinese: 帕龙错; pinyin: palong cuò) is a high-altitude saltwater lake in Zhongba County in the Tibet region of China.
The lake in located at 5,101 m (16,736 ft) above sea level at Qinghai-Tibet plateau, about 740 kilometers west of the regional capital Lhasa. The area around Palungcuo mainly consists of grasslands as natural pasture. [1] It stretches 20.4 kilometers in a north-south direction and 12.1 kilometers in an east-west direction.
The lake is the southern end point of Palongcuo-Cangmucuo Fault Zone. [2]
In 2008, for the first time a snow leopard was spotted in the southern grassland of the lake. [3]
Palongcuo | |
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Sentinel-2 image (2021) | |
Location | Zhongba County, Tibet, China |
Coordinates | 30°54′3.6″N 83°36′3.6″E / 30.901000°N 83.601000°E |
Surface area | 141.33 km2 (54.57 sq mi) |
Surface elevation | 5,101 m (16,736 ft) |
Frozen | Winter |
Palongcuo or Palung Co ( Chinese: 帕龙错; pinyin: palong cuò) is a high-altitude saltwater lake in Zhongba County in the Tibet region of China.
The lake in located at 5,101 m (16,736 ft) above sea level at Qinghai-Tibet plateau, about 740 kilometers west of the regional capital Lhasa. The area around Palungcuo mainly consists of grasslands as natural pasture. [1] It stretches 20.4 kilometers in a north-south direction and 12.1 kilometers in an east-west direction.
The lake is the southern end point of Palongcuo-Cangmucuo Fault Zone. [2]
In 2008, for the first time a snow leopard was spotted in the southern grassland of the lake. [3]