Zigetangcuo Lake

Tsige Dartso (Tibetan: ཙི་གེ་དར་མཚོ, Wylie: tsi ge dar mtsho, ZYPY: Tsige Dartso) or Zigetangcuo Lake (Chinese: 兹格塘错; pinyin: Zīgétáng cuò)^[1] is a crenogenic^[2] meromictic lake^[3] in the North Tibetan Plateau.^[4] It is located in Nagqu Prefecture, north of Dongqiao.^[5] It has an area of 187 square kilometers^[2] at an altitude of 4560 meters.^[6] It is the meromictic lake with the highest known altitude.^[2]

Tsige Dartso
兹格塘错 (Chinese) ཙི་གེ་དར་མཚོ (Standard Tibetan)
Sentinel-2 image (2021)
Tsige Dartso Location of Zigetangcuo Lake in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
Location	Nagqu Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region
Coordinates	32°00′N 90°44′E
Type	meromictic
Basin countries	China
Surface area	187 km2 (72 sq mi)
Surface elevation	4,560 m (14,960 ft)

References

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5. Manfred A. Jäch; Lanzhu Ji; Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Österreich; Wiener Coleopterologenverein (1995). Water beetles of China, Volume 3. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft (Section of Entomology) and Wiener Coleopterologenverein. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
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