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Tsagaannuur, Khövsgöl

Coordinates: 51°21′16″N 99°21′12″E / 51.35444°N 99.35333°E / 51.35444; 99.35333
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Tsagaannuur District
Цагааннуур сум
ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷᠰᠤᠮᠤ
Tsagaannuur District is located in Mongolia
Tsagaannuur District
Tsagaannuur District
Location in Mongolia
Coordinates: 51°21′16″N 99°21′12″E / 51.35444°N 99.35333°E / 51.35444; 99.35333
Country Mongolia
ProvinceKhövsgöl
Area
 • Total2,090 sq mi (5,410 km2)
Population
 (2007)
 • Total1,411
 • Density0.7/sq mi (0.26/km2)
Time zoneUTC+8

Tsagaannuur (Mongolian: Цагааннуур, white lake) is a sum of Khövsgöl aimag. The area is 5,410 km2. In 2000, Tsagaannuur had a population of 1,317 people, of which most identified themselves as Darkhad. There were 269 inhabitants who identified themselves as Tsaatan ethnicity. The sum center, officially named Gurvansaikhan (Mongolian: Гурвансайхан), is located at the shore of Dood Tsagaan nuur, 279 km north-north-east of Mörön and 1048 km from Ulaanbaatar.

History

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The Tsagaannuur sum was split off from Renchinlkhümbe, Khövsgöl in 1985.

Economy

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In 2004, there were about 8,000 heads of livestock, among them 2,400 goats, 2,100 sheep, 2,300 cattle and yaks, 1,100 horses, 6 camels, and 632 reindeer.[1] Tsagaannuur houses the only commercial fishing enterprise in Mongolia.

According to the statistics provided by the Tsagaan Nuur Sum government on November 13, 2014, in a general assembly with residents of the sum's Xarmai district, the total amount of domestic reindeer in both nearby West Taiga and in East Taiga is 1511.[2]

Notable places

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This sum covers the north-western part of the Darkhad valley, a basin that is considered remote even by Mongolian standards. Both Tsaatan and Darkhad practice shamanism.

References

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  1. ^ Mongolian National Statistical Office: Livestock Count 2004 (in Mongolian) Archived 2007-03-22 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Rasiulis, Nicolas, Freestyle Life: Improvising Livelihoods In The Taiga With Mongolian Dukhas And Other Beings With Whom They Co-Inhabit, MA Thesis, University of Ottawa, awaiting publication.
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Nomadicare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTi20-Nojwo

Literature

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M. Nyamaa, Khövsgöl aimgiin lavlakh toli, Ulaanbaatar 2001, p. 193f

51°21′16″N 99°21′12″E / 51.35444°N 99.35333°E / 51.35444; 99.35333