The area of Chalhan Salt Lake is 56 times that of Chaka Salt Lake, and the salt ore reserves can be used for 7 billion people to eat for 1,000 years.

Speaking of salt lakes, where do you think of? Bolivia's Uyuni salt marshuma? Or domestic Chaka Salt Lake? Or Da Chai Dan Emerald Lake, which has been on the Internet in recent years? Yes, these are extremely famous salt lakes. Some are known for the mirror of the sky, and some are like emeralds to win. They are all good places suitable for tourism and taking pictures.

But if you want to ask where the largest salt lake in China is? How many friends know? I believe that there are not many people who know it. It is not because it is not beautiful enough, but is ignored by many friends. It is Charkhan Salt Lake in Golmud City, Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province.

Chalhan Salt Lake is located in the south of the Chaidama Basin. It spans two cities and counties in the ground and Dulan. The salt lake is more than 160 kilometers long, the north and south are 20-40 kilometers wide. The salt layer is about 2-20 meters. In the square kilometers, it is almost 56 times that of Chaka Salt Lake. It is my country's largest natural salt lake and the largest soluble potassium magnesium salt mines.

According to the local friends of the peers, the total amount of potassium chloride in Charhan Salt Lake was nearly 500 million tons, magnesium chloride reserves of 1.65 billion tons, lithium chloride reserves of 8.246 million tons, sodium chloride reserves of 46.22 billion tons. , In particular, the reserves of sodium chloride can be used by humans around the world for more than 1,000 years. If it is calculated at the market price, its salt reserves are as high as 1.2 trillion yuan, which is the veritable Chinese first salt lake.

The Chalhan Salt Lake is not actually a single lake, but is composed of neighboring and connected to many salt ponds such as Lake Dabson, South Horbuson, North Horbuson, and Shi Nie. It is 2670 meters above sea level and is the lowest point of the Chaidama Basin, so many internal rivers such as the Golmud River and the Chaidama River are also injected into the lake.

It is understood that Charhan is a Mongolian transliteration. It means Yanze. According to legend, the Chaidama Basin where Chalhan Salt Lake was located hundreds of millions of years ago. Chaidami became a basin. At the beginning, although the ocean became land, it still formed countless small and small lakes, and Chalhan was only the largest of them.

Due to the change of geology, it became a vast Gobi here. The climate was dry and hot, the sunshine time was long, and the amount of water evaporation was much higher than the precipitation in this area. The high concentration of brine, gradually crystallizing into salt grains, the lake panel formed a thick salt cover, which was extremely hard. As early as Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", there was a record of Charhan, and the "green salt" used at that time originated from this place.

After liberation, the local government has built the largest domestic potassium fertilizer production base here, but very little is known for ordinary people. Later, with the rise of salt lake tourism, this largest salt lake in China, which is located deep in the Chaidama Basin, It is slowly well known to the world, but to say fame, it is still far less than that of Chaka Salt Lake, which belongs to Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province.

Although the fame is not obvious, it is not a real scenic spot, but the beauty here has always been underestimated, especially the Wanzhang Salt Bridge across the salt lake is very magical. The natural salt bridge, 32 kilometers in length, is equivalent to the city system, and exceeds 10,000 feet, hence the name Wanzhang Salt Bridge. The bridge is smooth and smooth, and the large vehicles pass through the above. It is unparalleled, which is amazing.

Yufan reminder:

1. The Chalhan Salt Lake is about 50 kilometers from the city of Golmud, and it is connected at a high speed. It takes about 40 minutes to drive. If you are not familiar with the road conditions, you can directly navigate;

2. Char Khan Salt Lake is beautiful, but it is also very sunny. There are no vegetation in the lake. Except for a few tourism booths, there are almost no other places that can be shaded, so everyone must do sunscreen work;

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