Lashihai is located 8 kilometers west of Lijiang County, pulling the central city of dam, is the first one in Yunnan Province in order to wet land named a nature reserve. Lashi as the ancient Naxi language translation of la as the shortage of dam, shi for the new, which means the shortage of new dam. Here in Northwest Yunnan originally part of the ancient geosynclinal Mesozoic uplift of the Yanshan fold movement into land, to become a Miocene peneplain, with the development of cross-sectional Mountains orogeny, to the late Pliocene to early Pleistocene, the quasi - Plain also split into three relative altitude 100-200 meters in altitude mountain basins, namely, Lashi dam, Lijiang dam, qihe dam. Lashi dam is one of the highest dam, there are still a dam in the waters, so he called Lashihai, lake elevation of 2437 meters.
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