Which city does Honghu Lake belong to?

Honghu Lake is located between honghu city and Jianli County in southern Hubei Province, in the depression between the Yangtze River and the Dongjing River. Belongs to Jingzhou city. The lake is 25 meters above sea level, with a perennial water surface of 350 square kilometers (water level 1980 in the mid-1980s) and an area of 348.2 square kilometers in 2008 (honghu city municipal government's 20 18 data is 348.33 square kilometers). The east and west sides are connected with the Yangtze River, which is a good place to raise fish.

Every winter, geese and ducks gather in the area from Heiyuwan to Luoshan in the southern part of the lake area, where waterfowl resources are abundant. Judging from the hydrological characteristics, Honghu Lake has a tendency of water return. The surface runoff in the catchment area mainly enters the lake through the main canal of the four lakes, and communicates with the Yangtze River through several culverts to realize flood storage. Along the golden waterway of the Yangtze River in the southeast, there are four main canals flowing into the lake area in the northwest.

The origin of Honghu's name

As a place name, Honghu Lake has no exact origin record. It was first seen in the Ming Dynasty's Records of Jiajing Mianyang: "The upper Honghu Lake is 120 miles southeast of the state, and the lower Honghu Lake is 10 miles, which is connected with Huang Peng by the water of Zhengdao, Baisha and Batan", and "In summer, Honghu Lake overflows, regardless of lakes and rivers, which can accommodate everything and flood the shore, regardless of the lake ridge." The altitude of Honghu Lake area is between 23 and 28 meters. Before the Ming Dynasty, there were only two lakes. Later, Jiangxi immigrants and locals reclaimed the sea around the lake, and the lake became smaller and smaller.

During the Qing Dynasty, the Yangtze River flooded, Dongting Lake burst, and many places in the southwest of Mianshui burst. The flood washed away the people's dikes and connected the upper and lower lakes, forming a big lake on the edge of the Yangtze River. People call it Honghu Lake, which means flooding. The largest time of Honghu Lake is 749 square kilometers. After liberation, the lake was reduced to 348 square kilometers by large-scale land reclamation.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Honghu Lake