What is the total area of Dongting Lake?

The total area of Dongting Lake: 2,579.2 square kilometers; Total volume: 22 billion cubic meters; The circumference of the lake basin; 803.2 kilometers.

Dongting Lake is an important storage lake in the Yangtze River basin, with strong flood storage capacity. It has saved the Yangtze River floods many times, and Jianghan Plain and Wuhan three towns have been able to survive the floods safely.

Dongting Lake is an important strategic place in history and the birthplace of China traditional culture. There are many scenic spots in the lake area, and the historic site represented by Yueyang Tower is an important tourism cultural resource. It is also the birthplace of Chinese traditional agriculture, the famous land of plenty, the most important commodity grain and oil base and aquaculture base in Hunan Province and even the whole country.

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Hydrological characteristics of Dongting Lake;

The water quality of Dongting Lake is clean and eutrophication is not obvious. The main pollutants make harmful substances in the atmosphere enter the lake with rainwater, which is one of the ways for pollutants to enter the lake. The main substances that enter Dongting Lake with rainwater are SO, Co, NoX and soot, and the harmful and toxic substances are mainly mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, arsenic, lead, phenol, cyanide and sulfide.

Dongting Lake is the main freshwater economic fish base in China. There are 1 13 species of fish belonging to 1 1 order 22 families, among which there are 102 species in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, including 65 species of CYPRINIDAE, LEPIDOPTERA 10 species and 9 species of Misguridae. The catch is 15000 ~ 30500 tons, and the main economic fish are herring, grass carp, silver carp, bighead carp, carp, crucian carp and red-eyed trout.

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