Sunye Lake Explained
| Sunye Lake |
| Pushpin Map: | Myanmar |
| Coords: | 21.6667°N 109°W |
| 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 4mi2 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,), and red lotus.
Sunye Lake has existed for generations and has a great history repair and maintenance by ancient kings.[10] [11] [12]
Notes and References
- News: Sunye Lake, Haven for Migratory Birds, Blossoming Lotuses . . 6 July 2016.
- News: Day-trippers to Sont Ye Lake on the rise . . 23 June 2016.
- News: ကြာမျိုးစုံ ဖူးပွင့်နေသည့် စွန်ရဲအင်းရေပြင်အလှကြောင့် ခရီးစဉ်ဒေသအဖြစ် စည်ကားနေသည့် အင်းကုန်းရွာကလေး . Myanmar Digital News . 8 April 2019 . my.
- News: Seeking solutions to issues in wetland areas . . 22 August 2019.
- News: Two Mandalay lakes to get wetland protection . . 30 September 2019.
- News: Conservationists to conduct census of migratory birds in Myanmar wetlands . . 6 January 2020.
- Web site: Mid Myanmar Inle or Sun Ye Inn Lak . Shwe Myanmar Info.
- News: စြန္ရဲအင္းႏွင့္ ပလိပ္အင္းတို႔ကို Wetland မ်ားအျဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္ထိန္းသိမ္းမည္ . . 29 September 2019. my.
- Book: Theingi Myint. Lotus Fiber Value Chain in Myanmar. Khin Nyein San. Aung Phyo. Regional BioTrade Project. 2018.
- News: အားၿပိဳင္မႈေတြၾကားထဲက မေရရာတဲ့ စြန္ရဲအင္း အနာဂတ္ . . 6 June 2018. my.
- News: လူသိများလာတဲ့ စွန်ရဲအင်း . . 4 July 2016. my.
- News: သဘာဝအလှပန်းချီ စွန်ရဲအင်း ဆီ . Myanma Radio and Television . 6 June 2019 . my.
