Inle Lake
| Inle Lake | ||
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| Sunset on Inle Lake | ||
| Geographical location | Shan State ( Myanmar ) | |
| Drain | Nam Pilu → Nam Pawn → Saluen | |
| Places on the shore | Ywama | |
| Location close to the shore | Nyaung Shwe | |
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| Coordinates | 20 ° 33 ' N , 96 ° 55' E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 875 m | |
| surface | 120 km² | |
| length | 22 km | |
| width | 10 km | |
| Maximum depth | 3.7 m (dry season) | |
| Middle deep | 1.5 m (dry season) + 1.5 m (in the monsoon season ) | |
The Inle Lake , a freshwater lake in Shan State in Myanmar is known for its leg rowers and floating villages and gardens . People's lives are entirely focused on the lake.
General
The lake with a north-south extension of about 22 km and an east-west extension of a maximum of 10 km is 875 m above sea level. With an average surface area of 12,000 hectares, it is the second largest lake in Myanmar after Lake Indawgyi .
The 17 villages within the lake and on the lakeshore are mostly inhabited by Intha . The houses are built on stilts. A total of 70,000 people live here.
Many of the vegetable, fruit and flower crops are cultivated in floating fields. The basis of these floating fields is a very fertile solid mass consisting of swamp, earth and water hyacinths , which are attached to the bottom of the lake by means of bamboo poles.
The locomotion in the narrow canals of the villages, in the fields and near the shore is done in narrow canoes. The leg rowing technique used here is typical of the lake. The rowing man stands at the stern of the boat. If the hands are required for fishing, for example, the leg is used exclusively for rowing by pinching the oar with the leg. Today, however, only the larger boats with outboard motors are allowed for long distances on the lake.
The lake belongs to the administrative unit of Nyaung Shwe with about 130,000 inhabitants. The capital of the administrative unit is the place of the same name Nyaung Shwe .
fauna
16 to 31 endemic fish are found in Inle Lake and the surrounding swamps , including the carp fish Danio erythromicron , Devario auropurpureus , Devario jayarami , Microrasbora rubescens , the naked arbor ( Sawbwa resplendens ) and the snakehead fish Channa harcourtbutleri . The grass carp ( Ctenopharyngodon idella ) and Labeo rohita occur as neobiota . Inle Lake has been an official bird sanctuary since 1985.
Attractions
- Ywama: place in the middle of the lake. There was a floating market here. Here and in the surrounding area you can visit many handicraft businesses such as silversmiths, weaving mills, wood carvers and cheroot factories.
- Phaung-Daw-U-Pagoda : This pagoda houses five Buddha figures, whichare driven from village to villagein the royal barge every year as part of the Phaung-Daw-U festival .
- Nga Phe Kyaung Monastery : A 160 year old monastery. As an attraction there were cats trained by monks that jumped through small hoops. For this reason the monastery is still called the Monastery of The Jumping Cats . The demonstrations are no longer there because the new abbot does not want them.
- The In-Dein-Pagoda Forest is an extensive cemetery and memorial complex.
photos
- Inle Lake
Stilt houses
"Floating" tomato plantation
One-legged rower
Buddhist temple on the lake shore
sunset
Trained monastery cats
literature
- Herbert Tichy : To the holiest mountain in the world. 6th edition. Seidel, Vienna 1956, pp. 80–90 (travel report from 1935)
- Nelson Annandale (1918): Fish and fisheries of the Inlé Lake. Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 14: 33-64, Pls. 1-7.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Devario jayarami on Fishbase.org (English)
- ↑ Lake Inle, WWF page ( Memento from October 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ LakeNet: Lake Profile Inle
