Zabuye Lake

Zabuye Caka is a salt lake in the western Tibetan plateau, its name including the Tibetan word for a salt lake. It occupies the lowest basin in a chain of lakes near the Lunggar mountains. Springs, streams and occasional water from the higher Taro Tso feed its waters, which contain abundant dissolved salts. Ancient shorelines in the region recall a time when the separate lake basins were joined beneath a much larger body of water.