Kanas Lake

Kanas Lake,155 kilometers north of Burjin County,located in the high mountain forestry area along the border with Russian and Mongolia,occupied an area of 2700 square kilometers,1374 meters above sea level.Kanas means beautiful,rich and mysterious in the local Mongolian dialect.The colour of the lake will be changed with the season,weather.There are distinctive layers of the vegetation types.

The ecosystem of the Reserve is unique to China as it is the only place of the country where the south Siberian system of fauna and forage are distributed,presenting the different scenes from that of temperate-zone pastureland to that of the arctic tundra snow and ice zone.So the wild life is rich with about 800 species of wild plants,and the wild animals are gluttons,sables,snow-leopards,wild goats and black storks.