Siling Lake (; ), (also known as Qilin) is a

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 lar ...

in the

Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China in Southwest China. It was overlayed on the traditional Tibetan regions of ...

, China to the north of

Xainza :''not to be confused with Naktsang Town in the Haa District of southwestern Bhutan'' Xainza (also Naktsang,Dorje (2009), p. 397. Xainza Town or Shantsa) is a town and township-level administrative unit and seat of Shentsa County or Xainza Coun ...

. Doijiang is located near the lake. Administratively it belongs to

Xainza County Xainza County, also Shantsa, Shentsa, (; ) is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. In 1999 the county had a population of 16,190. Geography The capital lies at Naktsang Town or Xainza. The county covers an area of . Un ...

and Baingoin County of the Nagqu.

Bangecuo Bangecuo (also spelled as Bangor Co) is a graben basin salt lakeWang, Can; Wang, Hailei; Song, Gao; Zheng, Mianping (February 2019)"Grain size of surface sediments in Selin Co (central Tibet) linked to water depth and offshore distance" ''Journal ...

is another nearby salt lake located east of Siling Lake, around four miles away.

Overview

The lake lies at an altitude of . It is a

salt lake A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre). ...

. It is fed by the rivers Za'gya Zangbo (or Tsagya Tsangpo) (扎加藏布) and the Boques Tsangpo (波曲藏布). With an area of , Siling Co is the second largest saltwater lake in the northern

Tibetan Plateau The Tibetan Plateau (, also known as the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau or the Qing–Zang Plateau () or as the Himalayan Plateau in India, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South and East Asia covering most of the T ...

and forms part of the Siling Co National Nature Reserve (also Selincuo Reserve or Xainza Nature Reserve). The reserve was established in 1993 and contains significant populations of

black-necked crane The black-necked Crane (''Grus nigricollis'') is a medium-sized crane in Asia that breeds on the Tibetan Plateau and remote parts of India and Bhutan. It is 139 cm (55 in) long with a 235 cm (7.8 ft) wingspan, and it weighs 5 ...

s and some 120 species of birds in total. The lake only has a single species of fish, '' Gymnocypris selincuoensis'', exploited by fishermen. The prairie on the banks of the lake is traditionally used as grazing land for yaks and sheep. The temperature at the lake is an annual average of , the maximum annual temperature . The average rainfall is per year, 90 percent of which falls in the months of June to September, often in the summer as hail.

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Siling Co
{{Nagqu Prefecture Lakes of Tibet Xainza County Ramsar sites in China Saline lakes of Asia

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