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Karakul
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kara Kul, Kara-kul, Lake Kara Kul, Lake Kara-kul, Lake Karakul, Karakul Lake, Kara-kul Lake, Kara Kul Lake
lake in Tajikistan
Key facts
- Location
- Pamir Mountains
- Type
- Impact crater lake, endorheic
- Primary outflows
- None
- Basin countries
- Tajikistan
- Max width
- 52 km (32 mi)
- Surface area
- 380 km (150 sq mi)
- Average depth
- 210 m (690 ft)
- Max depth
- 230 m (750 ft)
- Water volume
- 79.8 km (19.1 cu mi)
- Surface elevation
- 3,960 m (12,990 ft)
- Official name
- Karakul Lake
- Designated
- 18 July 2001
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- protected area
- Part of
- Pamir National Park
- Country
- Tajikistan
- Located in
- Murghob District
- Area
- 380
- Elevation
- 3900
- Image
- Вершина Уртабуз. Вдали - Пик Ленина. Внизу - озеро Каракуль.JPG
- Width
- 23
- Length
- 33
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Kara-Kul
- heritage designation
- Ramsar site
- vertical depth
- 238
- basin country
- Tajikistan
- mountain range
- Pamir Mountains
- different from
- karakol
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Karakul or Qarokul (Kyrgyz for "black lake", replacing the older Tajik name Siob; Russian: Каракуль; Tajik: Қарокӯл; Uyghur: قاراكۆل, romanized: Qaraköl, Қаракөл; Kyrgyz: Каракөл) is an endorheic lake, 25 km (16 mi) in diameter, located within a 52 km (32 mi) impact crater. It is located in the Tajik National Park in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan.
Impact crater
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karakul” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.