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Chaka Salt Lake

3,061 m10,043 ft
Area
124 km²
Tonight
1°CPartly cloudy · Wind 27 km/h W

Chaka Salt Lake is a lake at 3,061 m above sea level in Qinghai, People's Republic of China, 124 km² in area and 18.5 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
3,061 m
Length
18.5 km
Shoreline
56.3 km
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Lake

Chaka Salt Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

18.5 km longest5 kmN ↑
Shoreline
56.3 km
3D map

Chaka Salt Lake 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 20 × 20 km

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Chaka Salt Lake terrain and contours

20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the centre

Chaka Salt Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.
Weather

Chaka Salt Lake weather

Today · Clear · 1 / 13°C (34 / 55°F) · Wind 27 km/h W

Chaka Salt Lake forecast for about 3,061 m.

  • Today1°13°–27 km/h W
  • Sun1°10°–33 km/h W
  • Mon0°10°–21 km/h NW
  • Tue0°10°–5 km/h E
  • Wed0°11°–25 km/h W
  • Thu0°11°–12 km/h N
  • Fri1°12°–18 km/h NW
  • Sat3°10°0.3 mm10 km/h NW
  • Sun-1°10°–14 km/h W
  • Mon-1°8°–12 km/h W

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Chaka Salt Lake

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Chaka Salt Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

All mapped places 2
PlaceDistance
Parking7.2 km ENE
Parking7.4 km NNW
Slope

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 100% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
99.8%
Moderate, 15–30°
0.2%
Steep, 30–45°
0.0%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
0.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view
327 m low point 3,060 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 58.1%Grassland 20.1%Water 19.7%Wetland 1.2%Built-up 0.9%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 64 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Common Redshank12
  • Tibetan Sand-Plover10
  • Pied Avocet9
  • Kentish Plover7
  • Black-winged Stilt4
  • Woolly Hare4
Where it sits

Where Chaka Salt Lake sits

Region
Qinghai3China121Asia964
Nearby

Nearby places

Downloads

Chaka Salt Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain
Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-07-23)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
Camping & parking, Geometry
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
Wildlife
iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Panorama
Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia