| Sunye Lake | |
|---|---|
  Sunye Lake | |
| Location | Mandalay Region |
| Coordinates | 21°40′N 96°13′E / 21.667°N 96.217°E |
| Type | reservoir |
| Basin countries | Myanmar |
Sunye Lake ( Burmese: စွန်ရဲကန်; also spelt Sont Ye Lake), also known as Sunye In ( Burmese: စွန်ရဲအင်း), is a freshwater natural lake located near Kyaukse and Sintgaing, the large inland body of standing water measures approximately 4 square miles (10 km2) and is known as "little Inle". [1]
The Shan Yoma Mountain Ranges sited at the east of the Lake. Sunye Lake is a tourist destination and famous for its blossoming lotus flowers in the rainy season and migratory birds in the cool season. [2] [3] [4] The Lake designated as protected wetlands to conserve and regulate development. [5] [6] [7] [8] Sunye Lake is also a major source of lotus stems used in the production of lotus silk. [9] Three major varieties of lotus are grown on the lake, namely padonma kya, blue lotus (ကြာပုတီး, lit. 'lotus bead'), and red lotus. [9]
Sunye Lake has existed for generations and has a great history repair and maintenance by ancient kings. [10] [11] [12]
References
- ^ "Sunye Lake, Haven for Migratory Birds, Blossoming Lotuses". The Irrawaddy. 6 July 2016.
- ^ "Day-trippers to Sont Ye Lake on the rise". The Myanmar Times. 23 June 2016.
- ^ "ကြာမျိုးစုံ ဖူးပွင့်နေသည့် စွန်ရဲအင်းရေပြင်အလှကြောင့် ခရီးစဉ်ဒေသအဖြစ် စည်ကားနေသည့် အင်းကုန်းရွာကလေး". Myanmar Digital News (in Burmese). 8 April 2019.
- ^ "Seeking solutions to issues in wetland areas". The Myanmar Times. 22 August 2019.
- ^ "Two Mandalay lakes to get wetland protection". The Myanmar Times. 30 September 2019.
- ^ "Conservationists to conduct census of migratory birds in Myanmar wetlands". The Myanmar Times. 6 January 2020.
- ^ "Mid Myanmar Inle or Sun Ye Inn Lak". Shwe Myanmar Info.
- ^ "စြန္ရဲအင္းႏွင့္ ပလိပ္အင္းတို႔ကို Wetland မ်ားအျဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္ထိန္းသိမ္းမည္". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 29 September 2019.
- ^ a b Theingi Myint; Khin Nyein San; Aung Phyo (2018). Lotus Fiber Value Chain in Myanmar (PDF). Regional BioTrade Project.
- ^ "အားၿပိဳင္မႈေတြၾကားထဲက မေရရာတဲ့ စြန္ရဲအင္း အနာဂတ္". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 6 June 2018.
- ^ "လူသိများလာတဲ့ စွန်ရဲအင်း". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 4 July 2016.
- ^ "သဘာဝအလှပန်းချီ စွန်ရဲအင်း ဆီ". Myanma Radio and Television (in Burmese). 6 June 2019.
| Sunye Lake | |
|---|---|
Sunye Lake | |
| Location | Mandalay Region |
| Coordinates | 21°40′N 96°13′E / 21.667°N 96.217°E |
| Type | reservoir |
| Basin countries | Myanmar |
Sunye Lake ( Burmese: စွန်ရဲကန်; also spelt Sont Ye Lake), also known as Sunye In ( Burmese: စွန်ရဲအင်း), is a freshwater natural lake located near Kyaukse and Sintgaing, the large inland body of standing water measures approximately 4 square miles (10 km2) and is known as "little Inle". [1]
The Shan Yoma Mountain Ranges sited at the east of the Lake. Sunye Lake is a tourist destination and famous for its blossoming lotus flowers in the rainy season and migratory birds in the cool season. [2] [3] [4] The Lake designated as protected wetlands to conserve and regulate development. [5] [6] [7] [8] Sunye Lake is also a major source of lotus stems used in the production of lotus silk. [9] Three major varieties of lotus are grown on the lake, namely padonma kya, blue lotus (ကြာပုတီး, lit. 'lotus bead'), and red lotus. [9]
Sunye Lake has existed for generations and has a great history repair and maintenance by ancient kings. [10] [11] [12]
References
- ^ "Sunye Lake, Haven for Migratory Birds, Blossoming Lotuses". The Irrawaddy. 6 July 2016.
- ^ "Day-trippers to Sont Ye Lake on the rise". The Myanmar Times. 23 June 2016.
- ^ "ကြာမျိုးစုံ ဖူးပွင့်နေသည့် စွန်ရဲအင်းရေပြင်အလှကြောင့် ခရီးစဉ်ဒေသအဖြစ် စည်ကားနေသည့် အင်းကုန်းရွာကလေး". Myanmar Digital News (in Burmese). 8 April 2019.
- ^ "Seeking solutions to issues in wetland areas". The Myanmar Times. 22 August 2019.
- ^ "Two Mandalay lakes to get wetland protection". The Myanmar Times. 30 September 2019.
- ^ "Conservationists to conduct census of migratory birds in Myanmar wetlands". The Myanmar Times. 6 January 2020.
- ^ "Mid Myanmar Inle or Sun Ye Inn Lak". Shwe Myanmar Info.
- ^ "စြန္ရဲအင္းႏွင့္ ပလိပ္အင္းတို႔ကို Wetland မ်ားအျဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္ထိန္းသိမ္းမည္". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 29 September 2019.
- ^ a b Theingi Myint; Khin Nyein San; Aung Phyo (2018). Lotus Fiber Value Chain in Myanmar (PDF). Regional BioTrade Project.
- ^ "အားၿပိဳင္မႈေတြၾကားထဲက မေရရာတဲ့ စြန္ရဲအင္း အနာဂတ္". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 6 June 2018.
- ^ "လူသိများလာတဲ့ စွန်ရဲအင်း". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 4 July 2016.
- ^ "သဘာဝအလှပန်းချီ စွန်ရဲအင်း ဆီ". Myanma Radio and Television (in Burmese). 6 June 2019.