The average depth is 2.1 meters, and the deepest is 4.8 meters.

Taihu Lake is one of the five famous freshwater lakes in China. It belongs to the subsidence area of the earth's crust, and the lake basin is in the shape of a saucer, with an average water depth of about 2.1 meters and a maximum depth of 4.8 meters. The water storage capacity is 5.15 billion cubic meters, which is a typical shallow water type throughput lake.

Taihu Lake is located in the southern edge of the Yangtze River Delta, the ancient name of Zhenze, with area, also known as the five lakes, Kasawa, is one of China's five freshwater lakes, spanning the two provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, north of Wuxi, south of Huzhou, west of Yixing, near Suzhou in the east. Taihu Lake has a lake area of 2427.8 square kilometers, with a water area of 2338.1 square kilometers and a shoreline of 393.2 kilometers.

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Taihu Lake downstream of the river into the sea channel, the ancient Wusongjiang, Dongjiang,

From the 11th century, the Wusong River also quickly silted narrowing, the upstream water into Lake Taihu, after the lake east of the depression by the diffuse overflow diversion of the harbor into the Yangtze River. The first year of the Ming Yongle (1403), in Shanghai County, east of Fanjiabang, on the Huangpu River, the Yangtze River.

Less than half a century, the Huangpu River washed into a deep and wide river, became the main outlet for the drainage of the lower Taihu Lake, Wusong River silted up as a tributary of the Huangpu River. 1958, excavation of the Taipu River, connected to the Taihu Lake, under the Huangpu River.

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