Pasir Puteh
1 min readPasir Puteh
Pasir Puteh is located within the territory of the Corp 185 of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in Habahe County, with a distance of 103km northwest from the county, about2.55km from the Sino-Kazakh- border, and about 1km from the Ahitubiek Port.
It is a small desert lake surrounded by dunes of about 800m long from north to south, and about50 m wide from east to west, with depth of12m. It is concave in east and west, and there is no obvious inlet channel around the lake. It is a surprising and unique lake in the desert, so it is suspected to be fracture lake formed by the leaked underground water.
There are several layers of different vegetations scattering around the lake: on the sand dunes around the lake, there are climbing cypresses, crataegus, white willows, meadow sweets,an and other plants; on the lakeside, there is the mixed forest of towering populus canescens, white poplar, and white birch; near the water, there are dense reeds, calamus, and other aquatic plants. During June and July, the wild lotus flowers are spotting in the center of the lake, and there are many water birds and wild ducks playing among.
