Introduction to Lugu Lake

Lijiang Lugu Lake Mosuo Cultural Tourism Zone is located at the junction of Yongning Township, Ninglang County, Lijiang City, and Zuosuo Township, Yanyuan County, Sichuan Province. It is the main settlement of the Mosuo people. It is known as the "Pearl of the Plateau" and one of the nine plateau lakes in Yunnan Province. In terms of administrative divisions, Lugu Lake is under the joint jurisdiction of Yanyuan County in Sichuan Province and Ninglang County in Yunnan Province. Among them, Yanyuan County in Sichuan Province governs 29.6 square kilometers in the east (including 5.8 square kilometers of swamps and wetlands), and Ninglang County in Yunnan Province governs 27.0 square kilometers in the west. Lugu Lake belongs to the junction of the Hengduan Mountains and Canyon Area in terms of geomorphological zoning, the alpine Canyon Subregion in the northern section of the Hengduan Mountains and the mountainous plains of the Eastern Yunnan Basin, and the Zhongshan Mountain Source Subregion in Northwest Yunnan. The bank of Lugu Lake is often curved, forming a small harbor of the abyss. There are seven islands of large and small in the lake, all of which are limestone residual mounds. There is a long deep trough at the bottom of the lake in the east, and the lake slopes in the north and on both sides of Long Island are steep. There is Lion Mountain to the north of the lake, Xiaojia Volcano to the northeast, and Gouzhuandong Mountain to the southwest. The main rocks in the mountains around the lake are Lower Silurian limestone and shale, which are distributed in the Shizishan area. On the west bank of the lake, there are Lower Triassic mudstones and sandstones sandwiched with a small amount of marls. On the south and southwest banks, the Upper Permian sandstone shale, siliceous rock, tuff breccia, tuff, and sand shale sandwiched with a small amount of limestone.