Laken La
Laken La is a mountain pass at Damxung, north-west of Lhasa near the second-largest salt lake in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Namtso Lake. It has an elevation of 5,190 m.- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 5,154 metres
- Description: mountain pass in Damxung county, Lhasa, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Laken Pass”, “Largen La”, “Nagain La”, and “那根拉山口 ལ་རྒན་ལ་”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Namco Township.
Namco Township
Town
Nam Co, also known as Namco or Namucuo, is a village and township in Damxung County in the Lhasa Prefecture of Tibet. Known for its scenic vistas around Nam Co Lake, it has an extremely high altitude of 4,700 metres to 4,800 metres above sea level.
Laken La
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Lhasa, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
30.68158° or 30° 40′ 54″ north
Longitude
91.097° or 91° 5′ 49″ east
Elevation
5,154 metres (16,909 feet)
Open location code
8M2HM3JW+JR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tibetan—“Laken La” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Nagain La”
- Chinese: “那根拉山口”
- German: “Laken Pass”
- German: “Largaen La”
- German: “Largen La”
- German: “Lhachen La”
- German: “Nagen la”
- Swedish: “Nagain La”
- Tibetan: “རྣ་རྒན་ལ”
- Tibetan: “ལ་རྒན་ལ”
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