{{Short description|Lake in Pakistan}} {{Infobox body of water | name = Satpara Lake<br /> | native_name = {{Native name|ur|{{nq|سدپارہ جھیل}}}} | image = Storm, Satpara Lake.jpg | caption = The lake is set among the region’s spectacular mountainous landscapes | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | location = near Sadpara village, Skardu Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan | coords = {{coord|35.229521|N|75.630398|E|type:waterbody|display=title,inline}} | type = | etymology = ''Sadpara'' ({{literal translation|Seven gates}})<ref name="BBC" /> | inflow = | pushpin_map = Gilgit Baltistan | outflow = Satpara Stream | catchment = | basin_countries = Pakistan | length = {{convert|3.5|km}} | width = {{convert|1.4|km}} | website = http://www.skardu.pk | area = {{convert|4|km2}} | depth = | max-depth = | volume = | residence_time = | shore = | elevation = {{convert|2600|m}} | islands = Yes<ref name="BBC" /> | cities = Skardu }}

'''Satpara Lake''', also spelled '''Sadpara''' ({{langx|ur|{{nq|سدپارہ جھیل}}}}) is a natural lake near Skardu in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. The lake supplies water to Skardu Valley through the Satpara Stream.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news |last1=Azad |first1=Mukhtar |title=سدپارہ جھیل آخری سانس لے رہی ہے |trans-title=Sadpara Lake is taking its last breath |url=https://www.bbc.com/urdu/pakistan/story/2004/08/040825_sadpara_mukhtar_nad |access-date=17 April 2025 |work=BBC Urdu |date=26 August 2004 |lang=ur}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hussain |first1=Anam |title=Guardians of the glaciers - life beside Pakistan's vanishing ice |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/5/12/guardians-of-the-glaciers-life-alongside-pakistans-vanishing-ice |access-date=17 November 2024 |work=Al Jazeera |date=12 May 2024}}</ref> It is fed by the melting glacial ice from the surrounding mountains,<ref name="BBC" /> while the Satpara Stream is the lake's only outlet, which drains into the Indus River.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Muhammad |first=Ali |last2=Shangguan |first2=Donghui |last3=Rasool |first3=Ghulam |last4=Khan |first4=Amjad Ali |last5=Butt |first5=Asim Qayyum |last6=Hussain |first6=Ayesha |last7=Mukhtar |first7=Muhammad Ahsan |date=2024-11-02 |title=A Localized Evaluation of Surface Water Quality Using GIS-Based Water Quality Index along Satpara Watershed Skardu Baltistan, Pakistan |url=https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/13/11/393 |journal=ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information |language=en |volume=13 |issue=11 |pages=393 |doi=10.3390/ijgi13110393 |doi-access=free|issn=2220-9964}}</ref> Satpara Lake is situated at an elevation of {{convert|2600|m|abbr=on}}<ref name="BBC" /> above sea level and spans an area of {{convert|4|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}. It provides habitat to the brown and rainbow trout fishes which were introduced in the region.<ref>{{cite book |editor=T. Petr |title=Fish and fisheries at higher altitudes: Asia (385) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z4HESCeJyZcC |year=1999 |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |location=Rome |isbn=92-5-104309-4 |page=134}}</ref>

==History== Traditional accounts attribute the damming of the Satpara Lake to the Balti king Ali Senge Anchan (1595–1633), while the stream was taken out of it by his queen Mandok Gyalmo to irrigate her gardens.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hauptmann |first=Harald |author-link=Harald Hauptmann |url= |title=Lords of the Mountains: Pre-Islamic Heritage Along the Upper Indus in Pakistan |date=2024 |publisher=Heidelberg University Publishing |isbn=978-3-96822-270-7 |editor-last=Olivieri |editor-first=Luca Maria |pages=59–60 |language=en |chapter=Archaeology and Anthropology in the Northern Areas}}</ref> The completion of Satpara Dam downstream of the lake has enlarged the size of Satpara Lake.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101201180054/http://wapda.gov.pk/htmls/sataparapj.html Satpara Project]</ref>

== Physical features == The melting snow from the Deosai Plains is the main source of water for the lake.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hussain |first1=H. |last2=Mahmood |first2=S. |last3=Khalid |first3=A. |title=Seasonal variation in non-point source heavy metal pollution in Satpara Lake and its toxicity in trout fish |journal=Environmental Monitoring and Assessment |date=July 2023 |volume=195 |issue=7 |page=901 |doi=10.1007/s10661-023-11498-x|pmid=37380756 |bibcode=2023EMnAs.195..901H }}</ref> At a height of {{convert|2600|m|abbr=on}}, the lake is centered with an area of 4&nbsp;km with a picturesque island.

==Gallery== <gallery> File:Green Sadpara Lake.jpg|Sadpara Lake File:Turquoise Sadpara lake.jpg|Sadpara Lake File:Sadpara Lake and road.jpg|Sadpara Lake File:Green Sadpara Lake Xo.jpg|Sadpara Lake File:Green Sadpara Lake (SO).jpg|Sadpara Lake </gallery> ==See also== * Kachura Lake * Shangrila Lake

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