Kanas Lake

water brought up the Kanas natural sight reserve.
¡¡¡¡Kanas Natural Sight Region Reserve ¡¡Kanas natural sight region reserve lies in the north of the Burjin county, is a all round natural sight region reserve, its total area is 5,558 square kilometers. Within this region reserve, there are headstrem of two big branch of Erqis River--Burqin River and Habahe, there is the highest peak in the Altay mountains--Friendship apex which is 4,374 meters high. There are 374 agent flickering glacier, the longest Kansa glacier, is 10 kilometers long. These melt water brought up the Kanas natural sight reserve.
¡¡¡¡Kanas natural sight region reserve is made up of green muddy quartzite? powdery sandstone? quartzite, etc, and mica of Haixining period, is a classic ladder transect mountain, the mountain's height has very big difference,vertical natural sight is very obvious, from the foot of the mountain to top, there are seven national sight regions, namely black calcium earth meadow grassland region? hilly country gray and black taiga belt? hilly float taiga belt? subalpine meadow belt? alpine meadow belt and permafrost belt, etc. Complicated landform physiognomy and natural sights provided favorable conditions for various animals and plants' survival. This place a unique distributing region of Siberian animals and plants north of ancient Europe in our country, there are about one thousand kinds of plants,thirty-four sorts of animals? over one hundred sorts of birds? seven sorts of Reptilian amphibian? over three hundred kinds of insects? eight kinds of fish. Wood have high and big arbor like Siberian larch? Siberian spruce? Siberian red pine? Siberian fir, and so on, they blot out the sky and ward off the sun, composing the characteristic virgin woods, it is the existent most integrated woods in aboriginality. The trees strew at random orderly in woods, high and big arbor have two and three meters different height' wild rose? gooseberry? honeysuckle and spiral Siberian climates. There are also lichen? Siberian clematis and bilberry, etc. various colorful wild flowers covered whole mountain outside the woods, red peony and erberry flowers, blue myosotis? big funnel flowers, yellow canary-creeper, flower-de-luce, white dependence flower, black aconitic flower, there are birches? Altay poplars? red poplars? gray poplars? Sayan willows? etc along the ravine and valley.
¡¡¡¡There are various animals in different height in woods, rare red deer? snow leopard? grouse? cabrite? thunderbird, tree frog? black bee? white butterfly, etc.
¡¡¡¡There is a Kanas lake in the center of region reserve hilly country forest. Kanas lake is made up of the huge compound glacier in the second ice age, now there are many relics of glacier around the lake, lake surface is 374 meters high, lake is 25 kilometers long, and is 1.5--3.9 kilometers wide, area is 37.7 square kilometers, is about eight times of Heavenly Lake. The deepest water level of the lake is below the 176 meters, water quality the rate of mineralization is about 0.2 or so, in July and August, water temperatures over 200 degrees, margin of temperature in the day and at night is 12 centigrade or so. Lake water flux is about 50 cubic meters per second, variational height surface of lake is not overrun 50 centimeters. Because of steady water capacity, the bank of lake is very placid, swamp plant is very flourish, so it becomes a ideal place where fish and water bird spawn and raise up seeds, there are many rare fish in the lake.there are rare birds like swan? black crane, etc in summer in the lake.
¡¡¡¡The word "Kanas" belongs to Mongolian language, means beautiful? rich and mysterious. Kanas lake is very beautiful and rich, but has a little mysterious surely. People observe the surface of lake in different climate and different position, and will find that water have different color: overlook the surface from mountaintop, water is thick blue in fine day and is gray green in cloudy day and is ivory with a little blue and green in summer,like a crystal mirror in winter, so people also call Kanas lake as "change color lake", it is one place of the "mysteries". Two place of "mysteries" is: long long ago, people of this region found that there was "bugbear of lake" in Kanas lake. They often heard strange voice in the lake and looked at very high water column in the lake. What it is that did mischief, people still haven't found out the fact, its real reason which need exploring more.
¡¡¡¡Kanas is natural sight region reserve, whether from the terms of genic type of species? natural scenery? geologic physiognomy or the terms of remains of ancient culture to look at, it has very big scientific review price