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Loktak Lake (Meitei: Loktak Pat [2] [3] [4]) is a freshwater lake in Northeast India. It is a pulsating lake, with a surface area varying from 250 km 2 to 500 km 2 during the rainy season with a typical area of 287 km 2. [5] The lake is located at Moirang in Manipur state, India. [6] The etymology of Loktak is Lok = "stream" and tak = "the end ...
It is 40 km 2 (15.4 sq mi) in area, the only floating national park in the world, and an integral part of Loktak Lake. [1] [2] It is currently under the tentative lists of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, under the title "Keibul Lamjao Conservation Area (KLCA)", additionally covering the buffer of Loktak Lake (140 sq km) and Pumlen Pat (43 sq. km).
Above the hypolimnion is a thin layer, known as epilimnion, where fish survive to some degree. The benthal is becoming increasingly thick, causing not only pollution of the lake water, but an increase in the shallow part of the lake. [6] [13] It has been reported that the construction of Ithai Barrage has altered the Loktak Lake and its ecosystem.
Moirang (Meitei: /moi.rāŋ/ [1]) is a town in the Indian state of Manipur, best known for the tentatively listed UNESCO World Heritage Sites of the Keibul Lamjao Conservation Area (KLCA), covering Keibul Lamjao National Park (KLNP), the world's only floating national park, [2] [3] the buffer of Loktak Lake (140 sq km) and Pumlen Pat (43 sq. km).
The tastiest backwater fish in Kerala, the karimeen of Kanjiracode Kayal is from Ashtamudi Lake. 15 Loktak Lake: Manipur: 23 March 1990: 266: The largest freshwater lake in the north-eastern region of the country, which is famous for the phumdis (heterogeneous mass of vegetation, soil, and organic matters at various stages of decomposition ...
Loktak Lake: Bishnupur district: Manipur: Geo-tourism: It is a phumdi (floating biomass) with phumsangs (tribal huts of fishermen) which is also the Keibul Lamjao National Park - world's only floating wildlife habitat on the southwestern part of lake. [8] 10 Reiek Tlang: Aizawl: Mizoram
Hapta Kangjeibung - World's oldest pologround.; Samban-Lei Sekpil.; Ima Keithel - Asia's largest only-women market.; Polo.; Khongjom War Memorial Complex.; Loktak Lake - World's only floating lake.
'Mother Loktak' [3] [4]), also known as Loktak Lairembi [a] (Meitei: ꯂꯣꯛꯇꯥꯛ ꯂꯥꯏꯔꯦꯝꯕꯤ, romanized: loktaak lairembee, lit. 'Goddess of Loktak' [b]), [7] is the personification of the Loktak lake, who is revered by the Meitei people as the mother goddess of the sacred waters of the Loktak lake.