Kunming Dianchi Lake Stock Photo

Dianchi Lake (English name Tien Lake, also known as Tien Ch'ih or Dian Chi), also known as Kunming Lake, Kunming pool (K'un-Ming Ch'ih, also known as Kunming Chi). China Yunnan Great Lakes, in the southwest of Kunming. There Panlong River and other rivers into the lake elevation of 1886 meters, an area of ​​330 square kilometers, with an average depth of 5 meters, the deepest 8 meters. Haikou escape the lake in the southwest, said the mantis River, a tributary of the Jinsha River Pudu source. Dianchi Lake (diān chí) is the largest freshwater lake in Yunnan Province, the pearl of the plateau. In the past often flood flooding lake area, it was built as early as 1262 Songhuaba the Panlong River, in 1268 and dug Haikou River, the Dianchi Lake to increase traffic, reduce the lake floods. After 1955 in various rivers upstream of Lake Chun first built more than ten medium-sized reservoirs, irrigation and drainage along the lake to build dozens of power stations, lifting of floods and ensure irrigation and urban industrial and domestic water.