Tso Moriri

Mountain Lake

Tso Moriri or Lake Moriri “Mountain Lake”, is a lake in the Ladakhi a part of the Changthang Plateau in Jammu and Kashmir in Northern India. The lake and surrounding region are covered as the Tso Moriri Wetland Conservation Reserve.

The lake is at an altitude of four,522 m (14,836 feet). It is the largest of the high altitude lakes absolutely inside India and entirely within Ladakh in this Trans-Himalayan biogeographic location. It is set 16 miles (26 km) north to south in length and to a few miles (3 to 5 km) huge. The lake has no outlet at present and the water is brackish even though not very perceptible to flavor.

The lesser-recognized of the many lakes within the Changtang Wildlife sanctuary, Tso Moriri lake is a twin to the Pangong Lake. This lake offers a scenic area of peace and tranquillity, measuring about 28 km in duration from north to south, and about 100 feet common intensive. The spellbinding Tso Moriri lake is surrounded by barren hills, with the backdrop of stunning snow-protected mountains. Since that is the lesser-recognized of the 2 lakes, the crowd is much less too. Tucked away in the remotest elements of the united states of America makes Tsi Moriri a great famous person observing sight rendering an entire thoughts-stirring web site.

Tso Moriri has been declared as a wetland reserve. A variety of species of birds blanketed naked-headed goose, the terrific-crested grebe, the Brahmin duck, and the brown-headed gull. Himalayan hares are abundantly observed right here. Moriri Tso is also known as the ‘mountain lake’, owing to the peaks that surround it, towering at a height of 2000 meters, shutting it off from the outside global.