Tsagaannuur (, ''white lake'') is a
sum of
Khövsgöl aimag. The area is 5,410 km
2. In 2000, Tsagaannuur had a population of 1,317 people, of which most identified themselves as
Darkhad. There were 269 inhabitants who identified themselves as
Tsaatan ethnicity. The sum center, officially named ''Gurvansaikhan'' (), is located at the shore of
Dood Tsagaan Lake.
History
The Tsagaannuur sum was split off from
Renchinlkhümbe in 1985.
Administrative divisions
The district is divided into two
bags
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, which are:
* Gurvansaikhan
* Kharmai
Economy
In 2004, there were about 8,000 heads of livestock, among them 2,400
goat
The goat or domestic goat (''Capra hircus'') is a species of Caprinae, goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat (''C. aegagrus'') of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the ...
s, 2,100
sheep
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, 2,300
cattle
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and
yaks, 1,100
horse
The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 mi ...
s, 6
camel
A camel (from and () from Ancient Semitic: ''gāmāl'') is an even-toed ungulate in the genus ''Camelus'' that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. Camels have long been domesticated and, as livestock, they provid ...
s, and 632
reindeer
The reindeer or caribou (''Rangifer tarandus'') is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, taiga, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. It is the only re ...
. Tsagaannuur houses the only commercial fishing enterprise in Mongolia.
According to the statistics provided by the Tsagaan Nuur Sum government on November 13, 2014, in a general assembly with residents of the sum's Xarmai district, the total amount of domestic reindeer in both nearby West Taiga and in East Taiga is 1511.
[Rasiulis, Nicolas, Freestyle Life: Improvising Livelihoods In The Taiga With Mongolian Dukhas And Other Beings With Whom They Co-Inhabit, MA Thesis, University of Ottawa, awaiting publication.
]
Notable places
This sum covers the north-western part of the
Darkhad valley, a basin that is considered remote even by Mongolian standards. Both Tsaatan and Darkhad practice shamanism.
References
External links
Nomadicare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTi20-Nojwo
Literature
M. Nyamaa, ''Khövsgöl aimgiin lavlakh toli'', Ulaanbaatar 2001, p. 193f
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Districts of Khövsgöl Province