Brief introduction of Chaka Salt Lake scenic spots:
Chaka Salt Pond is located in the eastern edge of Qaidam Basin, south of Chaka Town, Wulan County. It is a rich and beautiful natural salt lake, with the towering Wanyan Tongbu Mountain in the north, Wangxiu Mountain in the south and Chatang Basin in the east.
Chaka is Mongolian, which means salt sea. The lake area and water depth of Chaka Salt Lake are obviously affected by the incense festival. In rainy season, the lake area can reach 104 square kilometers, which is ten times that of Hangzhou West Lake, and the dry season is obviously reduced. Lake water belongs to brine type. There is a layer of rock salt at the bottom, generally 5 meters thick, and the thickest part is 9.68 meters. More than ten kilometers of Mayana River flows into the southeast bank of the lake. Other water flowing into the salt lake is a small seasonal river. Salt Lake is a natural crystalline salt with large crystallization, pure quality and mellow salt taste. It is an ideal edible salt. Because its salt crystals contain minerals, the salt crystals are blue-black, so it is called green salt. The initial proven reserves exceed 440 million tons. Chaka salt is very easy to mine. People can fish out natural crystalline salt from below as long as they uncover the salt cover with a thickness of more than ten centimeters. A few years later, the mined brine recrystallized into a salt layer. Is really inexhaustible, inexhaustible.
Chaka Salt Lake is the smallest of the four major salt lakes in Qaidam Basin, and it is also the earliest developed one. There are thousands of landscapes in the salt lake, including salt mining scenery, sunrise in the salt lake and wonders of salt flowers. , constitutes a beautiful picture. Tea card salt mining has a long history, which can be traced back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. There has been such a record in the New Records of Xining Prefecture: the county governing the west has more than 500 miles, and the southwest of Qinghai has more than 200 miles. Salt is natural and inexhaustible. Mongolia fished with an iron spoon, sold jade in the market, and people in the county relied on it. Qing Qianlong twenty-eight years, there is a salt law. Before liberation, the Ma Bufang regime established a saltworks here, producing nearly 1,000 tons of crude salt every year. After liberation, the ancient Chaka Salt Pond has been built and developed continuously, and the mechanization of salt mining has been realized. Chaka Salt Factory has been built, and more than ten varieties of iodized salt, washed salt, recycled salt and dry salt have been developed, producing hundreds of thousands of tons of high-quality raw salt every year. In addition to supplying all parts of Qinghai, it also sells well in more than 20 provinces and regions in China, and is exported to Japan, Nepal, the Middle East and other regions, which is widely welcomed by people.
The formation of salt lakes is due to disasters or crustal movement. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was once a part of the ocean. After a long period of crustal movement, this ground rose and became the largest plateau in the world. As a result, seawater stayed in some low-lying areas, forming many salt lakes and ponds. Chaka Salt Lake is one of them. The salt in Chaka Lake is almost endless, because the rain will bring more salt from the surrounding mountains.
Chaka Salt Lake has a mining history of more than 3,000 years. Visitors can enjoy the scenery of the salt lake here and visit the mechanized salt mining operation. This is a world of salt. There is a smell of salt in the car, on the ground and even in the air, and there are salt diggers digging in the distance. Observe these salts carefully, they are crystalline crystals; Try it. It tastes slightly different from salt.
With luck, you can see the mirage formed on these rivers during the day. These wonders formed by water vapor refracting sunlight include houses, cows and even sheep swimming on the lake.