Key facts
- Basin countries
- China
- Max length
- 72 km (45 mi)
- Surface area
- 638 km (246 sq mi)
- Average depth
- 30 m (98 ft)
- Max depth
- 60 m (200 ft)
- Surface elevation
- 4,441 m (14,570 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Tibet Autonomous Region
- Area
- 640
- Elevation
- 4440
- Image
- Yamdrok-tso.jpg
- Length
- 72
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- Commons category
- Yamdrok Lake
- basin country
- China
- watershed area
- 9940
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Encyclopedic overview
Yamdrok Lake Yamdrok Lake (also known as Yamdrok Yumtso or Yamzho Yumco; Tibetan: ཡར་འབྲོག་གཡུ་མཚོ་, Wylie: yar 'brog g.yu mtsho, ZWPY: Yamzhog Yumco; Chinese: 羊卓雍錯; pinyin: Yángzhuó Yōngcuò, Yángzhuō Yōngcuò) is a freshwater lake in Tibet. It is one of the three largest lakes in Tibet. It is over 72 km (45 mi) long. The lake is surrounded by many snow-capped mountains and is fed by numerous small streams. The lake has an outlet stream, a tributary of Yarlung Tsangpo, at its far western end and means turquoise in English due to its color.
Around 90 km (56 mi) to the west of the lake lies the Tibetan town of Gyantse and Lhasa is 100 km (62 mi) to the northeast. According to local mythology, Yamdok Yumtso lake is the transformation of a goddess.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yamdrok Lake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.