{"id":3358,"date":"2023-02-13T09:18:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T03:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:26:22","slug":"pangong-tso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pangong-tso\/","title":{"rendered":"Pangong Tso"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Pangong Tso:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Pangong Lake or Pangong Tso is a <strong>long narrow, endorheic (landlocked<\/strong>) lake situated at a <strong>height of more than 14,000 ft<\/strong> (4,350 meters) in the <strong>Ladakh Himalayas<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The lake is <strong>5 kilometers wide and 134 kilometers long<\/strong>, with <strong>one-third of it lying in India<\/strong> &amp; the other <strong>two-thirds in China<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>world&#8217;s highest saltwater lake<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The lake is also <strong>very deep<\/strong> and reaches a maximum <strong>depth of almost 328 feet<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is also <strong>known to change colors<\/strong>, appearing blue, green, and red at different times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0 What is an endorheic lake?<\/h3>\n<p>An endorheic lake is a lake that doesn\u2019t drain towards the ocean. hese lakes are also known as terminal lakes or sink lakes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/indias-first-frozen-lake-marathon-at-ladakh-s-pangong-tso-on-feb-20-key-facts-101676219889634.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India\u2019s first frozen lake marathon at Ladakh\u2019s Pangong Tso on Feb 20. Key facts<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pangong TsoPangong Tso is a landlocked lake situated at a height of more than 4,350 meters in the Ladakh Himalayas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}