Lake Ayakum

Ayakum Lake is a lake near the northern boundary of the Tibetan Plateau, to the southeast of the Kunlun Mountains.[1] While many of the small glacier and snowmelt-fed streams on the Plateau give rise to major South-east Asian rivers (including the Mekong and Yangtze), some empty into saline lakes such as Lake Ayakum.[1]

Map including Lake Ayakum
Map including Lake Ayakum (labeled as A-ya-k'o-k'u-mu-k'u-le) from the International Map of the World (1975)
Ayake Kumuhu Lake, Ayakum Lake
Astronaut photograph highlighting two river deltas formed along Lake Ayakum's south-western shoreline
LocationXinjiang
Coordinates37°33′N 89°23′E
Lake Ayakum
Location within China

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