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ChengqingLake Kaohsiung Taiwan scenery landscape lake park recreation sightseeing nature hotel

Views of the low water level of Chengqing Lake, Niaosong District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
Other names and spellings are Chengcing Lake (澄清湖), Chengqing Lake, Cheng Ching Lake, Dabei Lake (大貝湖), or Toapi Lake (大埤湖). The artificial lake has a surface area of ~1.03 km². Effective capacity of the reservoir is 3,370,000 m³. Previously, the lake was used to regulate the irrigation of the surrounding land. Now the lake is a source of the public water supply network (Seventh Branch of Taiwan Water Corporation) and irrigation as well as a recreational area of the Kaohsiung region. Due to lack of precipitation in 2020/early 2021 water level was rather low in 2021 April. The situation was used to carry out dredging works to restore the previous storage capacity of the lake, which was impaired by siltation.

Points of interest (sightseeing):
* Freedom Pavilion 自由亭
* Chiang Kai-shek building 澂清樓 (蔣公行館)
* Shishien 獅子園
* Seven bends bridge 澄清湖風景區九曲橋
* Taoran Pavilion 澄清湖風景區陶然閣
* Fengyuan Pavilion 澄清湖風景區豐源閣
* Tsz Fai Building 慈暉樓
* Flying Statue of Tatsuko 辰子飛翔之像
* Shuanglian Pavilion 雙蓮亭
* Renzhiting 仁智亭
* Jiemeiting 姊妹亭
* Fuguodao 富國島
* Siyuanting 思源亭
* National Army Zhongling Pagoda 國軍忠靈塔
* Zhongxing Tower 中興塔
* Kaohsiung Grand Hotel 高雄圓山大飯店
* Niaosong Wetland Park 鳥松濕地公園

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