Located on the south bank of Jingjiang River in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, it spans Yueyang, Guluo, Xiangyin, Wangcheng, Yiyang, Yuanjiang, Hanshou, Changde, Jinshi, Anxiang and Nanxian counties and cities. The name of Dongting Lake began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it was named after Dongting Mountain in the lake.
Dongting Lake receives water from Songzi, Taiping, ouchi and Diaoxian counties of the Yangtze River, connects with four small tributaries of Hunan, Zi, Yuan and Li in the south and west, and flows into the Yangtze River from Chenglingji, Yueyang City. ?
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Dongting Lake is the first of the five lakes since ancient times and the largest Tongjiang lake in China. Due to the interaction and mutual restriction of natural and human factors, Dongting Lake has experienced an evolutionary process from small to large, and then from large to small.
The water quality of Dongting Lake is clean and eutrophication is not obvious. The main pollutants make harmful substances in the atmosphere enter the lake with rainwater through precipitation, which is one of the ways for pollutants to enter the lake. The main substances that enter Dongting Lake with rainwater are SO, Co, NoX and smoke.
Dongting Lake is the main freshwater economic fish base in China. There are 1 13 species of fish belonging to 1 1 order 22 families, among which there are 102 species in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, including 65 species of CYPRINIDAE, LEPIDOPTERA 10 species and 9 species of Misguridae.