Dongting Lake

Dongting Lake, large lake in northern Hunan province, south-central China. It lies in a basin to the south of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) and is connected to the Yangtze by four channels. Typically, some two-fifths of the river’s waters flow into the lake, the amount increasing during flood periods. The lake is also fed from the south by almost the entire drainage of Hunan province, with the Xiang River flowing in from the south...