Iskanderkul
Sign in to saveIskanderkul (; ) is a mountain lake of glacial origin in Tajikistan's Sughd Province. It lies at an altitude of on the northern slopes of the Gissar Range in the Fann Mountains. Triangular in shape, it has a surface area of and is up to deep. Formed by a landslide that blocks the Saratogh river, the outflow of the lake is called the Iskander Darya, which joins the Yaghnob River to form the Fan Darya, a major left tributary of the Zeravshan River.
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Iskanderkul
- Body of water.image
- Iskander-kul, Tajikistan.JPG
- Body of water.alt
- A milky-blue lake with numerous green treetops in the foreground and multiple steep-sided mountains in the background
- Body of water.pushpin_map
- Tajikistan
- Body of water.pushpin_map_alt
- A map of Tajikistan with a mark indicating the location of Iskanderkul
- Body of water.location
- Gissar Range, Fann Mountains
- Body of water.type
- glacial lake
- Body of water.inflow
- Sarytag, Khazormech, Serima
- Body of water.outflow
- Iskander Darya
- Body of water.basin_countries
- Tajikistan
- Body of water.mapframe
- yes
- Body of water.mapframe zoom
- 13
- Body of water.mapframe wikidata
- yes
- Body of water.mapframe point
- none
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Tajikistan
- Located in
- Sughd Province
- Area
- 3.4
- Elevation
- 2195
- Image
- Iskander-kul, Tajikistan.JPG
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- Commons category
- Iskanderkul
- basin country
- Tajikistan
- vertical depth
- 72
- outflows
- Iskander Darya
- mountain range
- Hisar Range
- watershed area
- 760
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Italiano
L'Iskanderkul (in tagiko Искандаркӯл; in russo Искандеркуль) è un lago morenico delle montagne del Tagikistan (Asia centrale).
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
On the map
2 mapped locations