Key facts
- Location
- Abai and Jetisu regions, Kazakhstan
- Type
- salt lake
- Basin countries
- Kazakhstan
- Surface area
- 2,650 km (1,020 sq mi)
- Max depth
- 54 m (177 ft)
- Water volume
- 58.6 km (47,500,000 acre⋅ft)
- Surface elevation
- 347 m (1,138 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Located in
- Kazakhstan
- Area
- 2650
- Elevation
- 347
- Image
- Озеро Алаколь возле Кабанбай (Жарбулак) сверху-1.jpg
- Width
- 104
- Length
- 52
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- inflows
- Emil River
- Commons category
- Lake Alakol
- watershed area
- 55000
- residence time of water
- 25.2
- vertical depth
- 54
- volume as quantity
- 58600
- basin country
- Kazakhstan
- native label
- Алакөл
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- East Kazakhstan Region
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Encyclopedic overview
Alakol Lake (Kazakh: Алакөл, Alaköl is a lake located in the Balkhash-Alakol Basin, part of the Abai and Jetisu regions , in east-central Kazakhstan. Its elevation is 347 m (1,138 ft) above sea level.
The lake is the northwest extension of the region known as the Dzhungarian Gate (Alataw Pass), a narrow valley that connects the southern uplands of Kazakhstan with arid northwest China. The Dzhungarian Gate is a fault-bounded valley (see vertical line on the image along the southwest side of the lake) where the elevation of the valley floor is between 350 and 450 m above sea level and the peaks of the Dzhungarsky Alatau range (lower left) reach 4,463 m (14,642 ft) above sea level. Two well-defined alluvial fans are visible where mountain streams cut through the faulted landscape to the southwest of the lake.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Alakol” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.