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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Sunye Lake

Sunye Lake (Burmese: စွန်ရဲကန်; also spelt Sont Ye Lake), also known as Sunye In (Burmese: စွန်ရဲအင်း), is a freshwater natural lake located near Kyaukse and Sintgaing, the large inland body of standing water measures approximately 4 square miles (10 km) and is known as "little Inle".

The Shan Yoma Mountain Ranges sited at the east of the Lake. Sunye Lake is a tourist destination and famous for its blossoming lotus flowers in the rainy season and migratory birds in the cool season. The Lake designated as protected wetlands to conserve and regulate development. Sunye Lake is also a major source of lotus stems used in the production of lotus silk. Three major varieties of lotus are grown on the lake, namely padonma kya, blue lotus (ကြာပုတီး, lit.'lotus bead'), and red lotus.

Sunye Lake has existed for generations and has a great history repair and maintenance by ancient kings.

References

  1. ^ "Sunye Lake, Haven for Migratory Birds, Blossoming Lotuses". The Irrawaddy. 6 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Day-trippers to Sont Ye Lake on the rise". The Myanmar Times. 23 June 2016.
  3. ^ "ကြာမျိုးစုံ ဖူးပွင့်နေသည့် စွန်ရဲအင်းရေပြင်အလှကြောင့် ခရီးစဉ်ဒေသအဖြစ် စည်ကားနေသည့် အင်းကုန်းရွာကလေး". Myanmar Digital News (in Burmese). 8 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Seeking solutions to issues in wetland areas". The Myanmar Times. 22 August 2019.
  5. ^ "Two Mandalay lakes to get wetland protection". The Myanmar Times. 30 September 2019.
  6. ^ "Conservationists to conduct census of migratory birds in Myanmar wetlands". The Myanmar Times. 6 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Mid Myanmar Inle or Sun Ye Inn Lak". Shwe Myanmar Info.
  8. ^ "စြန္ရဲအင္းႏွင့္ ပလိပ္အင္းတို႔ကို Wetland မ်ားအျဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္ထိန္းသိမ္းမည္". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 29 September 2019.
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  12. ^ "သဘာဝအလှပန်းချီ စွန်ရဲအင်း ဆီ". Myanma Radio and Television (in Burmese). 6 June 2019.