4288 x 2848 px | 36,3 x 24,1 cm | 14,3 x 9,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
26 juillet 2009
Lieu:
Khövsgöl Nuur National Park, Mongolia, Asia
Informations supplémentaires:
Mongolia is a landlocked sovereign state in East Asia covering 1, 564, 000 square kilometres, making it the 19th largest and one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world, with a population of around 3 million people only. The country contains very little arable land: much of its area is covered by grassy steppe, with mountains to the north and west and the Gobi Desert to the south. It is bordered by China to the south and Russia to the north. Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is home to about 45% of the country's population. Khövsgöl nuur (lake) is located in the northwest of Mongolia near the border to Russia, at the foot of the eastern Sayan Mountains. It is 1, 645 m above sea level, 136 km long and 262 m deep. It is the second-most voluminous freshwater lake in Asia, and holds almost 70% of Mongolia's fresh water and 0.4% of all the fresh water in the world. Its watershed is relatively small, and it only has small tributaries. It gets drained at the south end by the Egiin Gol, which connects to the Selenge and ultimately into Lake Baikal. In between, the water travels a distance of more than 1, 000 km, and a height difference of 1, 169 m, although the line-of-sight distance is only about 200 km. Its location in northern Mongolia helps form the southern border of the great Siberian taiga forest, of which the dominant tree is the Siberian Larch (Larix sibirica), The lake is surrounded by several mountain ranges. The highest mountain is the Bürenkhaan / Mönkh Saridag (3, 492 m), which has its peak north of the lake exactly on the Russian-Mongolian border. At sunset, views of Khövsgöl Nuur are magnificient. We had the chance to spend the night in a ger camp on the shore of the lake.
