Chatyr-Kul
Sign in to saveChatyr-Köl ( ; ), also Chatyr-Kul (), is an endorheic alpine lake in the Tian Shan mountains in At-Bashy District of Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan; it lies in the lower part of Chatyr-Köl Depression near the Torugart Pass border crossing into China.
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Chatyr-Köl
- Body of water.image
- Chatyr_kul_lake.JPG
- Body of water.location
- Tian Shan mountains, Naryn Region
- Body of water.type
- EndorheicMountain lake
- Body of water.inflow
- Glaciers
- Body of water.outflow
- Evaporation
- Body of water.basin_countries
- Kyrgyzstan
- Body of water.designation
- Ramsar site
- Body of water.islands
- none
- Body of water.cities
- none
- Body of water.pushpin_map
- Kyrgyzstan#Asia
- Body of water.pushpin_map_alt
- Location of Chatyr-Kul in Kyrgyzstan.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Kyrgyzstan
- Located in
- Naryn Region
- Area
- 181
- Elevation
- 3500
- Image
- Chatyr kul lake.JPG
- Width
- 10
- Length
- 23
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- Commons category
- Chatyr-Kul
- basin country
- Kyrgyzstan
- heritage designation
- Ramsar site
- vertical depth
- 16.50
- volume as quantity
- 630
- mountain range
- Tianshan Mountains
- watershed area
- 1050
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Climate
- Hydrology
- Protection
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Chatyr-Köl ( ; ), also Chatyr-Kul (), is an endorheic alpine lake in the Tian Shan mountains in At-Bashy District of Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan; it lies in the lower part of Chatyr-Köl Depression near the Torugart Pass border crossing into China.
==Climate== The mean annual temperature in the lake basin is , with mean temperature of in January, and in July. The maximum temperature in summer is , and the minimum one in winter is . Some 88-90% of the lake basin's 208–269 mm of annual precipitation falls in summer. From October to end of April the lake surface freezes, the ice becoming as much as 0.25-1.5 m thick.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chatyr-Kul” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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