Kyzylkol | |
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Қызылкөл | |
Location | Near the Karatau Mountains |
Coordinates | 43°45′N 69°29′E / 43.750°N 69.483°E |
Type | Endorheic lake |
Primary inflows | Ushbas |
Catchment area | 60.4 square kilometers (23.3 sq mi) |
Basin countries | Kazakhstan |
Max. length | 6.1 kilometers (3.8 mi) |
Max. width | 2.8 kilometers (1.7 mi) |
Surface area | 16.2 square kilometers (6.3 sq mi) |
Max. depth | 10 meters (33 ft) |
Shore length1 | 18.6 kilometers (11.6 mi) |
Surface elevation | 331 meters (1,086 ft) |
Islands | None |
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. |
Kyzylkol (Kazakh: Қызылкөл; Russian: Кызылколь) is a lake in Sozak District, Turkestan Region, Kazakhstan.[1]
The lake lies 20 kilometers (12 mi) east of Sholakkorgan town and a little to the west of Kumkent. Kyzylkol lake is a 4,160 hectares (10,300 acres) Important Bird Area, where tens and even hundreds of thousands of birds may rest at the lake at a given time.[2][3][4]
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