{"id":"phoksundo-lake","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/phoksundo-lake","language":"en","name":"Phoksundo Lake","name_en":"Phoksundo Lake","name_ne":"फोक्सुण्डो ताल","description":"Lake in Dolpa District, Nepal","headline":"Lake in Dolpa District, Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Phoksundo Lake is an alpine fresh water oligotrophic lake in Nepal's Shey Phoksundo National Park at an elevation of 3,611.5 m (11,849 ft) in the Dolpa District. Phoksundo Lake is 494 ha (1.91 sq mi) in size with a water volume of 409,000,000 m3 (1.44×1010 cu ft) and a discharge of 3.715 m3/s (131.2 cu ft/s). In 2004, a survey by the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology measured the maximum depth of the lake at 145 m (476 ft). In 2019, another detailed survey was carried out by the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, which measured the maximum depth of the lake at 136.20 m (446.9 ft).","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"lake","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23397"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3215132#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Dolpa District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28610","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/dolpa-district"},{"text":"Karnali Province (province of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104017","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/karnali-province"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3215132#P131"}},{"key":"area","label":"Area","values":[{"text":"4.94 km²","value":4.94}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3215132#P2046"}},{"key":"elevation","label":"Elevation","values":[{"text":"3,612 m","value":3612.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3215132#P2044"}},{"key":"heritage","label":"Heritage status","values":[{"text":"Ramsar site","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19683138","start":"2007"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3215132#P1435"}},{"key":"established","label":"Established","values":[{"text":"2007","date":"2007"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3215132#P571"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoksundo_Lake","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%8B_%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3215132"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Phoksundo Lake located?","a":"Phoksundo Lake is located in Dolpa District, Karnali Province, Nepal."},{"q":"What is the elevation of Phoksundo Lake?","a":"Phoksundo Lake is at an elevation of 3,612 m above sea level."}],"related":[],"places_in":[],"nearby":[{"name":"Shey Phoksundo National Park","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/shey-phoksundo-national-park","km":20.4},{"name":"Dolpa District","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dolpa-district","km":30.1},{"name":"Dunai, Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dunai-nepal","km":30.1}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Bathymetric_Map_of_Phoksundo_Lake.jpg/960px-Bathymetric_Map_of_Phoksundo_Lake.jpg","width":640,"height":905,"license":"CC BY 4.0","credit":"Government of Nepal, Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bathymetric_Map_of_Phoksundo_Lake.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Phoksundo Lake","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoksundo_Lake","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): फोक्सुण्डो ताल","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%8B_%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q3215132","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3215132","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Bathymetric Map of Phoksundo Lake.jpg by Government of Nepal, Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (CC BY 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bathymetric_Map_of_Phoksundo_Lake.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Phoksundo Lake, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Bathymetric Map of Phoksundo Lake.jpg — Government of Nepal, Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, CC BY 4.0.","cite":"\"Phoksundo Lake\". DigiNepal. Last updated 2 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/phoksundo-lake. Retrieved 21 October 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-02T06:19:02Z","facts_checked":"2026-10-21","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/phoksundo-lake","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/phoksundo-lake","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/phoksundo-lake?lang=ne"}}