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Erhai Lake

In the shape of an Er, meaning "ear" in Chinese, Erhai Lake, in the east of Dali, covers 250 square kilometers at an elevation of 1,980 meters with water, a storage capacity of 300,000 cubic meters. Its vast pool of water, shining under the sun like a sheet of vivid green, and the snow mantles of the Cangshan Mountain reflected quivering in it, combine to form a breath-taking sight known poetically as "Silver Cangshan and Jade-like Erhai".