Tso Lhamo lake is one of the highest lakes in the world, located at an altitude of .
[Highest Lakes Researching the highest lakes in the world , http://highestlakes.com/list.html] It is situated in
Mangan district
North Sikkim (now officially named as Mangan District) is a district of the Indian state of Sikkim. Its district headquarters is Mangan. It is the seventh least populous district in the country (out of 640).
Geography
The district is the ...
,
Sikkim
Sikkim (; ) is a state in Northeastern India. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north and northeast, Bhutan in the east, Province No. 1 of Nepal in the west and West Bengal in the south. Sikkim is also close to the Silig ...
,
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
, about southwest of the international border with China. It is fed by waters from
Zemu glacier
Zemu Glacier is the largest glacier in the Eastern Himalaya. It is about in length and is located at the base of Kangchenjunga in the Himalayan region of Sikkim, India.
The Zemu Glacier drains the east side of Kanchenjunga, the world's third h ...
, Kangtse glacier or Pauhunri glacier, and is the source of the
Teesta river
Teesta River is a long river that rises in the Pauhunri Mountain of eastern Himalayas, flows through the Indian states of Sikkim and West Bengal through Rangpur, and enters the Bay of Bengal. It drains an area of . In India, it flows throug ...
.
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of ...
referred to the lake as Cholamoo lake.
Its name is also spelled Chho Lhamo
and Cholamu lake.
Geography
Tso Lhamo Lake is a glacial, fresh-water lake located northeast of the
Kangchenjunga
Kangchenjunga, also spelled Kanchenjunga, Kanchanjanghā (), and Khangchendzonga, is the third highest mountain in the world. Its summit lies at in a section of the Himalayas, the ''Kangchenjunga Himal'', which is bounded in the west by the ...
range in a high plateau area connected with the
Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau (, also known as the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau or the Qing–Zang Plateau () or as the Himalayan Plateau in India, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South and East Asia covering most of the ...
.
The
Gurudongmar Lake
Gurudongmar Lake is one of the highest lakes in the world and in India, at an elevation of according to the Government of Sikkim. It is located in the Great Himalayas in the Mangan District in Indian state of Sikkim, and considered sacred ...
lies some to the west.
See also
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Tilicho lake
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Lake Tsongmo
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Khecheopalri Lake
Khecheopalri Lake, originally known as Kha-Chot-Palri (meaning the heaven of Padmasambhava), is a lake located near Khecheopalri village, west of Gangtok in the West Sikkim district of the Northeastern Indian state of Sikkim.
Located to the ...
References
{{Hydrography of Sikkim
Lakes of Sikkim
Mangan district