Key facts
- Location
- Börtala , Xinjiang , China
- Type
- Rift lake
- Primary inflows
- Kuitun River, Bortala River, Jinghe River (intermittent)
- Primary outflows
- None
- Basin countries
- China
- Surface area
- 805 km (311 sq mi) (2018)
- Average depth
- 1.4 m (4 ft 7 in)
- Max depth
- 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in)
- Water volume
- 760 million cubic metres (620,000 acre⋅ft)
- Surface elevation
- 189 m (620 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Ebi Lake 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 1200 km (400 sq mi), which is now down to under 1000 km with an average depth of less than 2 meters (6.5 feet).
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aibi Lake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.