Ebi Lake

Ebi Lake

Satellite image of Aibi Lake
Location Börtala, Xinjiang, China
Coordinates 44°53′N 83°00′E / 44.883°N 83.000°E / 44.883; 83.000Coordinates: 44°53′N 83°00′E / 44.883°N 83.000°E / 44.883; 83.000
Type Rift lake
Primary inflows Kuitun River, Bortala River, Jinghe River (intermittent)
Primary outflows none
Basin countries China
Surface area 1070 km²
Average depth 1.4 m
Max. depth 2.8 m
Water volume 760 mil. m³
Surface elevation 189 m

Ebi Lake (Mongolian: Ev nuur; Middle Mongolian: Ebi; Chinese: ; pinyin: Ài) is a rift lake in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China, near the border of Kazakhstan. Lying at the southeast end of the Dzungarian Gate, Ebi Lake is the center of the catchment of the southwestern part of the Dzungarian Basin. The lake previously covered over 1000 km2 (400 miles2) with an average depth of less than 2 meters (6.5 feet). In August 2007, the Chinese government designated the adjoining Aibi Lake wetland as a National Nature Reserve.

The high salt concentration (87 g/L) of its water prevents plants and fish from living in the actual lake, though many kinds of fish do live in the mouths of its source rivers.

The lake currently covers only 500 km2 surface [1]

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