PANGONG TSO

June 6, 2020

The Pangong Tso is the site of eye-to-eye confrontation between Indian and Chinese troops, following a scuffle in early May. Both sides have ramped up their troop presence but "disengagement" process is also underway.

About:

Pangong Tso is a long narrow, deep, endorheic (landlocked) lake situated at a height of about 4,350 m in the Ladakh Himalayas. It is 134 km long and 5 km wide at its broadest point.
In the Ladakhi language, Pangong means extensive concavity, and Tso is lake in Tibetan.
The brackish water lake freezes over in winter, and becomes ideal for ice skating and polo.
It is not a part of the Indus river basin area and geographically a separate landlocked river basin.
The lake is not a Ramsar site yet. It is in the process of being identified under the Ramsar Convention as a wetland of international importance.