Lake Zabuye

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The Chabyêr Çaka or Zabuye Salt Lake is a salt lake in Drongpa, a county in the northwest of the district of Shigatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People 's Republic of China. It lies in the transition Tise Mountains in the interior of the Tibetan Plateau, consists of two pools of 243 km ² along size and is an average of 70 cm, at the lowest point no 2 meters deep.

2005 here a lithium extraction plant was opened.

In addition, more borax is included than in any other lake in it.

Geography and climate

The Chabyer Çaka is separated in the middle by a narrow into a northern and a southern part. The southern part is silver-white and dried out, the northern part between 20 cm and 100 cm deep. To the west of the lake, the mountain rises Ri ` arge liang.

On Chabyer Çaka has a continental mountain climate. In summer, temperatures reach there between 5 ° C and 10 ° C. In winter it is very cold, daytime temperatures rise above -15 ° C is not, at night they can drop to -40 ° C. Thus, the lithium production is stopped in winter.