Northlines Ladakh's Tso Kar New Delhi, December 24: India has added Tso Kar Wetland Complex in Ladakh as its 42nd Ramsar site, the second one in the Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh, according to the government. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar shared the information. The Tso Kar Basin is a high-altitude wetland complex, consisting of two principal water bodies–Startsapuk Tso, a freshwater lake of about 438 hectares to the south, and Tso Kar itself, a hypersaline lake of 1,800 hectares to the north, situated in the Changthang region of Ladakh, India. It is called Tso Kar, meaning white lake, because of the white salt efflorescence found on the margins due to the evaporation of highly saline water.