Chang Lake (Yunnan)
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Chang Lake (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Cháng Hú; lit. 'Long Lake'), also known as Cang Lake (; Cáng Hú; 'Hidden Lake'), is a lake located in the town of Chang Lake, Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan, China. Changhu, 1,907-metre (6,257 ft) above sea level, has a circumference of 5,000-metre (16,000 ft), a maximum depth of 24-metre (79 ft), and has a storage capacity of some 1,810,000 m3 (0.00043 cu mi) of water.
Editing Group of General Situation of Shilin Yi Autonomous County (2007). [General Situation of Shilin Yi Autonomous County]. Beijing: Nationalities Publishing House. ISBN 978-7-1050-8540-8. Editing Group of Annals of Lunan Autonomous County (1996). [Annals of Lunan Autonomous County]. Kunming, Yunnan: Yunnan Nationalities Publishing House. ISBN 7-5367-1294-4.
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