Hulun Lake Explained

Hulun Lake
Location:	Inner Mongolia (China)
Coords:	48.9731°N 117.4356°W
Pushpin Map:	Inner Mongolia
Inflow:	Kherlen River, Orshuun Gol
Outflow:	Mutnaya Protoka (temporal Argun River−Amur Basin tributary)
Catchment:	33469km2^[1]
Basin Countries:	China, Mongolia
Length:	90km (60miles)^[2]
Width:	27km (17miles)
Area:	2339km2
Depth:	5.7m (18.7feet)
Elevation:	539m (1,768feet)

Hulun Lake (; Mongolian: Хөлөн нуур|Khölön nuur;) or Dalai Lake^[3] ^[4] (Mongolian: Далай нуур|Dalai nuur;) is a large lake in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China.

Description

It is one of the five largest freshwater lakes in all of China, covering approximately 2,339 km². In years with high precipitation, the normally exit−less endorheic lake may overflow at its northern shore, and the water will meet the Argun River (Ergune) after about 30km (20miles).

The lake is not far from Manzhouli, which is on a major passenger rail-line. Although there are several villages nearby, Manzhouli is the nearest city of notable size. As of 1995 annual fish production was about 7,000 tons, 100 tons of shrimp, 4 kilograms of pearls, 1.5 million crayfish. Hulun Lake is also one of the key reed production areas in China.^[1]

Hulun Lake and its wetlands are a Biosphere reserve and a Ramsar site of China.^[4]

Notes and References

http://www.worldlakes.org/lakedetails.asp?lakeid=8612 LakeNet - Hulun Hu (Hulun Nur) Lake Profile
measured using Google Earth
Berkey. Charles Peter. Morris. Frederick Kuhne. Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921–1930). Central Asiatic. 1924. Basin structures in Mongolia. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 51, article 5.. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. en-US. 51. 105. 2246/1317 . The great basin of the Gobi contains many minor basins, which we are calling "talas," from a Mongol word for an open steppe-country (Fig.3). The following talas may be demonstrated: the Dalai Nor tala, now draining through the Argun river to the Amur; the Iren tala; the Gashuin Nor, or Edsin Gol tala; the Kisin or Shargin tala; the Khara and Dzapkhin, or Kirghiz Nor tala, in which are the cities of Kobdo and Uliassutai; the Tez, or Ubsa Nor tala. Each tala has its own local interior drainage and is bounded by inconspicuous warp divides or by mountain ranges, or both, separating it from neighboring areas of similar habit..
https://en.unesco.org/biosphere/aspac/dalai-lake Dalai Lake Biosphere Reserve, China