Rakwa Tso (; ), also known as Rawu Tso or Ranwu Lake, is a lake in
Baxoi County
Pasho County or
Baxoi County (; }) is a county under the administration of Chamdo Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The county seat is at Pema (), which is also called the Pasho Town. The county population is 35,273 (1999). It contains ...
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Chamdo Prefecture
Chamdo, officially Qamdo () and also known in Chinese as Changdu, is a prefecture-level city in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its seat is the town of Chengguan in Karuo District. Chamdo is Tibet's third largest city ...
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Tibet Autonomous Region
The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a Provinces of China, province-level Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China in Southwest China. I ...
, China, to the north of Arza Gongla Glacier, and to the south of
Ngagung Tso
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. The lake covers an area of , and has an elevation of . The lake was created by a
landslide dam
A landslide dam or barrier lake is the natural damming of a river by some kind of landslide, such as a debris flow, rock avalanche or volcanic eruption. If the damming landslide is caused by an earthquake, it may also be called a quake lake. Some ...
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Parlung River
Parlung Tsangpo or Parlung Zangbo (; ), also known as Palongzangbu River, is a river in Nyingchi, Tibet, China. It is the largest tributary on the left side of Yarlung Tsangpo. Its source is the Arza Gongla Glacier, at an elevation of 4900m. It fi ...
flows out of the lake.
The lake is within the historical region of
Kham
Kham (; )
is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the northeast, and Ü-Tsang in central Tibet. The original residents of Kham are called Khampas (), and were governed locally by chieftains and monasteries. Kham ...
. The average temperature is , and the rainfall {{convert, 849.7, mm, abbr=on. It has been a famous tourist destination.
Lakes of Tibet