Uvs Nuur Basin
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How it came to be
Uvs Lake is the largest lake in Mongolia by area, at 3,350 km², yet only 6 m deep on average. It has no outflow, and its water is about half as salty as the sea. The basin it drains covers some 70,000 km² and is the northernmost enclosed basin in Central Asia.
The border between Mongolia and Russia's Tuva Republic runs along the basin's northern edge. Between peaks of about 4,000 m and the lake shore at about 800 m lie mountains, forest, steppe and desert, home to the snow leopard, argali and Siberian ibex, and to more than 550 species of higher plants.
In 2003 twelve protected areas in the two countries were inscribed together as one World Heritage site. The central Uvs Nuur Strictly Protected Area makes up almost half of it. In 2004 the lake and its surrounding wetlands were also designated a Ramsar site.
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