Lake Dus Hol Samagaltai
Description:
Dus Hol is a lake in the Republic of Tuva. It is called Dus-Hol Samagaltai, since the lakes called Dus-Hol in the Republic of Tuva are three. This lake is located 45 kilometers from the village of Samagaltai. The lake is very salty, its salinity reaches 339 percent.
The size of the lake is small. Its length is 1.4 kilometers, and its width is from 200 to 400 meters. The average depth of the lake is only 0.02 meters. Around the lake is absolutely bare terrain, without any vegetation, everything is completely burned by the sun.
Soleproming has long been developed on the lake Dous-Hol. The salt in the lake is so much that the layers of salt reach 30-50 centimeters in a shallow lake. Under the layers lie layers of different silt: red, black and gray.
The water of the lake has very good resort characteristics. In a small part there is an outlet of the waters of Lake Dus Hol with a large mineralization, there are also several mineral springs in the lake itself.