Salim Lake temperature

In October 2023, the temperature of Sailimu Lake is still relatively cold.

Sailim Lake is located in the western section of the Tianshan Mountains, at the southwest end of the Junggar Basin. The lake area is located at 80°. National Highway 312 passes along the lake shore. It is 100 kilometers east of Bole City, Xinjiang, 150 kilometers away from Alashankou, and Kuitun. It is 330 kilometers away from the city, 160 kilometers away from Yining City, the capital of Ili Prefecture, and 86 kilometers away from Horgos Port in the south. In October 2023, the temperature of Sailimu Lake was still relatively cold. The temperature of Sailimu Lake is basically around ten degrees, and the weather is changeable.

Sailim Lake has an altitude of 2073m, a lake area of ​​458k㎡, and a lake recharge coefficient of about 3.1. It is the basin with the smallest recharge coefficient among land lakes. The maximum water depth of Sailimu Lake is 92m, and the water storage capacity is about 2.1×1010m?. The lake area is surrounded by mountains and has glaciers, forming a closed alpine basin water system. The average annual precipitation on the lake is about 450mm, mostly concentrated from April to August.

Natural resources of Sailimu Lake

1. Zooplankton

According to the 2008 China Geographic Magazine report on Sailimu Lake Plankton Analysis 19 species, including 6 species of protozoa, accounting for 36.1%; 8 species of rotifers, accounting for 41.2%; 3 species of cladocerans, accounting for 15.8%; 2 species of copepods, accounting for 10.5%. Among them, the protists mainly include robber bugs, bell worms, gymostomia, and rotifer species such as Brachia gigantea and stenorotifera; the common species of cladocerans is Pseudomonas tibetanensis; the common species of copepods is Daphnia darts. . The survival of zooplankton in the lake provides necessary conditions for fish farming.

2. Fish

Sailimu Lake originally had no fish. In 1998, Xinjiang introduced cold-water fish such as whitefish and concave whitefish from Russia for breeding. In 2000, finished fish was caught for the first time. , ending the history of Sailimu Lake not producing fish. After ten years of development, Sailimu Lake has become an important cold-water fish production base in Xinjiang.

For the above content, please refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Sailimu Lake