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Karakoshun Lake () was an inland lake located in the
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塔里木河的变迁与罗布泊的演化 (Quarterly Sciences, 2009)
(in Chinese) {{coord missing, Xinjiang Lakes of Xinjiang Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture Endorheic lakes of Asia
Karakoshun Lake () was an inland lake located in the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture
Bayingolin (; often abbreviated to Bayingol; also as Bayinguoleng) is an autonomous prefecture for Mongol people in the southeast of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Western China. It borders Gansu to the east, Qinghai to the southeast and ...
, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
, China, which is now dry.
General
Karakoshun Lake is one of the major depressions in the southeastern part of theTarim Basin
The Tarim Basin is an endorheic basin in Northwest China occupying an area of about and one of the largest basins in Northwest China.Chen, Yaning, et al. "Regional climate change and its effects on river runoff in the Tarim Basin, China." Hydr ...
, the others including Lop Nur and Taitema Lake
Lop Nur or Lop Nor (from a Mongolian name meaning "Lop Lake", where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin) is a former salt lake, now largely dried up, located in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin, between the Taklamakan and Kumtag deserts ...
. Until the first half of the 20th century, it was the terminal lake
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...
of the Tarim River
The Tarim River ( zh, p=Tǎlǐmù Hé, c=塔里木河; ug, تارىم دەرياسى, Tarim deryasi), known in Sanskrit as the Śītā, is an endorheic river in Xinjiang, China. It is the principal river of the Tarim Basin, a desert region of C ...
, that emptied into Lop Nur, recorded by the explorers, Nikolay Przhevalsky, Sven Hedin and Folke Bergman as the "Kara koshun" wetland. It also received water from Taitema Lake
Lop Nur or Lop Nor (from a Mongolian name meaning "Lop Lake", where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin) is a former salt lake, now largely dried up, located in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin, between the Taklamakan and Kumtag deserts ...
, which collected water from the Qiemo River.
By the end of the 20th century, Karakoshun Lake had completely dried up./ref>
Transport
*Xinjiang Region Highway S235 ( China National Highway 315 toHami
Hami (Kumul) is a prefecture-level city in Eastern Xinjiang, China. It is well known as the home of sweet Hami melons. In early 2016, the former Hami county-level city was merged with Hami Prefecture to form the Hami prefecture-level city with t ...
)
See also
* Lop NurReferences
External links
塔里木河的变迁与罗布泊的演化 (Quarterly Sciences, 2009)
(in Chinese) {{coord missing, Xinjiang Lakes of Xinjiang Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture Endorheic lakes of Asia