| Siling Lake / Selincuo | |
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  Siling Lake / Selincuo | |
| Location | Nagqu Prefecture, Tibet, China |
| Coordinates | 31°50′N89°00′E / 31.833°N 89.000°E /31.833; 89.000 |
| Basin countries | China |
| Surface area | 1,865 km2 (720 sq mi) |
| Surface elevation | 4,530 metres (14,860 ft) |
| Official name | Tibet Selincuo Wetlands |
| Designated | 8 January 2018 |
| Reference no. | 2352[1] |
Siling Lake (Tibetan:སེར་གླིང་མཚོ,Wylie:ser gling mtsho,ZYPY:Sêling Co;Chinese:色林错;pinyin:Sèlín cuò), (also known as Qilin or Selincuo) is asalt lake in theTibet Autonomous Region, China to the north ofXainza.Doijiang is located near the lake. Administratively it belongs toXainza County andBaingoin County of theNagqu.
Bangecuo is another nearby salt lake[2] located east of Siling Lake,[3] around four miles away.
The lake lies at an altitude of 4,530 metres (14,860 ft). It is a salt lake. It is fed by the riversZa'gya Zangbo (or Tsagya Tsangpo) (扎加藏布) and the Boques Tsangpo (波曲藏布).With an area of 1,865 km2 (720 sq mi), Siling Co is the second largest saltwater lake in the northernTibetan Plateau and forms part of the Xainza Nature Reserve. The 400,000-hectare (990,000-acre) reserve was established in 1993 and contains significant populations ofblack-necked cranes and some 120 species of birds in total.[4][5] The lake only has a single species of fish,Gymnocypris selincuoensis, exploited by fishermen.[citation needed] The prairie on the banks of the lake is traditionally used as grazing land for yaks and sheep.
The temperature at the lake is an annual average of −3 to −0.6 °C (26.6 to 30.9 °F), the maximum annual temperature 9.4 °C (48.9 °F). The average rainfall is 290 mm (11 in) per year, 90 percent of which falls in the months of June to September, often in the summer as hail.
| Climate data for Siling Lake | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −4.7 (23.5) | −2.7 (27.1) | 1.2 (34.2) | 5.7 (42.3) | 10.1 (50.2) | 14.8 (58.6) | 15.7 (60.3) | 14.5 (58.1) | 12.4 (54.3) | 6.2 (43.2) | 0.0 (32.0) | −3.2 (26.2) | 5.8 (42.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −11.9 (10.6) | −9.8 (14.4) | −5.9 (21.4) | −1.3 (29.7) | 3.1 (37.6) | 7.9 (46.2) | 9.6 (49.3) | 8.7 (47.7) | 6.3 (43.3) | −0.3 (31.5) | −7.0 (19.4) | −10.4 (13.3) | −0.9 (30.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −19.0 (−2.2) | −16.8 (1.8) | −12.9 (8.8) | −8.2 (17.2) | −3.8 (25.2) | 1.1 (34.0) | 3.5 (38.3) | 3.0 (37.4) | 0.2 (32.4) | −6.7 (19.9) | −14.0 (6.8) | −17.6 (0.3) | −7.6 (18.3) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 2 (0.1) | 2 (0.1) | 2 (0.1) | 5 (0.2) | 13 (0.5) | 39 (1.5) | 78 (3.1) | 74 (2.9) | 39 (1.5) | 7 (0.3) | 1 (0.0) | 1 (0.0) | 263 (10.3) |
| Source:Climate-Data.org | |||||||||||||
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