Karakoshun Lake () was an inland lake located in the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, which is now dry.
General Karakoshun Lake is one of the major depressions in the southeastern part of the Tarim Basin, the others including Lop Nur and Taitema Lake. Until the first half of the 20th century, it was the terminal lake of the Tarim River, which emptied into Lop Nur, recorded by the explorers, Nikolay Przhevalsky, Sven Hedin and Folke Bergman as the "Kara koshun" wetland.Hedin, the Man Who Solved the Mystery of the Wandering Lake: Lop Nor and Lou-lan (Silk Road in Rare Books) It also received water from Taitema Lake, which collected water from the Qiemo River.
By the end of the 20th century, Karakoshun Lake had completely dried up.你不知道的罗布泊——罗布泊中遇见神秘圆形城池（越玩越野、2016年）
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See also Lop Nur
References
External links 塔里木河的变迁与罗布泊的演化 (Quarterly Sciences, 2009) (in Chinese)