Kanas Lake

Kanas Lake is a lake in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. The lake is situated in a valley in the Altai Mountains, close to the plain northern tip of Xinjiang, and the region's outskirts with Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia. The lake was conformed to 200,000 years back amid the Quaternary time frame because of ice sheet development. The sickle moon formed lake has an expected water stockpiling limit of 53.8 billion cubic meters, combined with a normal profundity of around 120 meters.

The Kanas River, streaming out of the lake, later converges with the Hemu River to frame the Burqin River, which itself releases into the Irtysh River at Burqin Town, the province seat of Burqin County. There is an extensive populace of ethnic Tuvans and Kazakhs in the Kanas valley. While the vast majority of these individuals have kept up their customary rural and itinerant ways of life, many work in the creating the travel industry, and have built up offices for orienteering, climbing, boating, shake climbing, paragliding and camping.

Around 117 various types of winged creatures live along the lake. For a few centuries there have been sightings of expansive lake animals in the waters. First endeavors in research of these legends were finished by Yuan Guoying Xinjiang University who watched fish of gigantic size in 1985. He and his understudies surveyed that the fish could be 10 – 15 m long and in excess of 4 tons overwhelming, with aggregate populace more than 50 people.