| Palongcuo | |
| Location: | Zhongba County, Tibet, China |
| Coords: | 30.901°N 83.601°W |
| Area: | 141.33km2 |
| Elevation: | 5101m (16,736feet) |
| Frozen: | Winter |
| Pushpin Map: | Tibet |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | Location of the lake in Tibet. |
Palongcuo or Palung Co is a high-altitude saltwater lake in Zhongba County in the Tibet region of China.
The lake in located at 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]