Dawa Lake

Dawa Tso, the Moon Lake, is a saline lake of the western Tibetan plateau. It lies at more than 4,600 metres in a basin formed by faulting, northwest of the much larger Zhari Nam Tso. Old shorelines and gravel bars on the slopes around it mark former water levels above the present lake. A broad wetland corridor extends towards the drainage divide separating Dawa Tso from the neighbouring Zhari Nam basin.