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Huangcai Reservoir

Hunan, China · built 1965

The Huangcai Reservoir (simplified, traditional, pinyin: Huángcái Shuǐkù), also known as Qingyang Lake is a large reservoir located in the northwestern part of Ningxiang in the province of Hunan, China. It is the largest body of water in Ningxiang and the largest reservoir in Ningxiang. The reservoir is the source of the Wei River. It cost about RMB 5,393,300,000. Created by damming some small rivers, Huangcai Reservoir, with an area of 240.8 square kilometres (59, 500 acres), the reservoir has a capacity of 147,000,000 cubic metres (39×10^9 US gal).

Reservoir data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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