Dianchi Lake Dyked

Situated in the southwest of Kunming basin-the watershed of the Yangtze, the Honghe, the Zhujiang rivers systems, the arch-shaped Dian Lake covers an area of more than 300 square kilometers approximately 40 kilometers long and 7 kilometers wide, with an average depth of 5 meters, and has a storage capacity of 1.5 billion cubic meters. It is the largest plateau and freshwater lake in Yunnan Province ranking sixth among those of China as well; pleasantly, Dian Lake is regarded as “A Plateau Pearl”.