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Longmu Lake

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Type
  
Salt lake

Max. length
  
17.2 km (11 mi)

Surface area
  
97 km (0 sq mi)

Area
  
97 km²

Mean depth
  
1 m

Basin countries
  
China

Max. width
  
9.1 km (6 mi)

Surface elevation
  
5,002 m

Catchment area
  
570 km²

Catchment area
  
570 km²

Longmu Lake

Location
  
Rutog County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China

Longmu (Tibetan: ལུང་མུ་མཚོ, Wylie: lung mu mtsho; Chinese: 龙木错; pinyin: Lóngmù Cuò), also Longmu Co or Longmucuo, is a glacial lake in Rutog County in the Ngari Prefecture in the northwest of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It was investigated in 1989 in a Sino-French expedition to western Tibet.

References

Longmu Lake Wikipedia