Where is Issyk Kul located?
Where is Issyk Kul located?
Kyrgyzstan
Lake Ysyk, Kyrgyz Ysyk-köl, Russian Ozero Issyk-kul, a drainless lake in northeastern Kyrgyzstan. Situated in the northern Tien Shan (“Celestial Mountains”), it is one of the largest high-mountain lakes in the world and is famous for its magnificent scenery and unique scientific interest.
What is unique about Lake Issyk Kul?
Lake Issyk-Kul is the forth deepest lake in the world. It has an average depth of 300 meters. Its deepest point is 668 meters. Because the lake is so deep, the salinity is relatively low and it is fed by thermal springs, it never freezes.
What is the depth of Issyk Kul?
2,192′
Issyk Kul/Max depth
Is Issyk Kul freshwater?
The water of Lake Issyk Kul is brackish. Its sources include numerous streams and rivers flowing down ridges. Because of the large water surface area the lake influences the climate of the coastal part of the basin. In particular, water evaporating from the lake surface is one of the sources of local precipitation.
How was Issyk-Kul formed?
One barber yelled the secret into a well, but he did not cover the well afterwards. As a result, the well water rose and flooded the kingdom. The kingdom is today under the waters of Issyk-Kul. According to the legend, this is how the lake was formed.
Which mountain range is bordered Issyk-Kul to the north?
Tian Shan mountain system
Geography. The north is dominated by the eye-shaped Issyk-Kul lake, surrounded by the ridges of the Tian Shan mountain system: the Kyungey Ala-Too mountains to the north and the Terskey Alatau to the south (the ‘sunny’ and ‘shady’ Alatau, respectively).
How was Lake Issyk-Kul formed?
Creation legend One barber yelled the secret into a well, but he did not cover the well afterwards. As a result, the well water rose and flooded the kingdom. The kingdom is today under the waters of Issyk-Kul. According to the legend, this is how the lake was formed.
Why is Issyk-Kul Lake salty?
Salty Lake lies in a hollow, cut off from Lake Issyk-Kul by small, dusty hills. Lake Issyk-Kul is also slightly salty, since there is no outflow, so evaporation leaves mineral salts. Salty Lake is the same, just smaller, and even more salty.
Why is Issyk Kul lake salty?
Which mountain range is bordered Issyk Kul to the north?
What is the size of Issyk Kul?
Issyk-Kul Lake is 182 kilometres (113 mi) long, up to 60 kilometres (37 mi) wide, and its area is 6,236 square kilometres (2,408 sq mi). It is the second largest mountain lake in the world behind Lake Titicaca in South America. It is at an altitude of 1,607 metres (5,272 ft), and reaches 668 metres (2,192 ft) in depth.
Where is Lake Issyk-Kul?
Administratively, the lake and the adjacent land are within Issyk-Kul Region of Kyrgyzstan. During the Soviet era, the lake became a popular vacation resort, with numerous sanitoria, boarding houses and vacation homes along its northern shore, many concentrated in and around the town of Cholpon-Ata.
What happened at Issyk-Kul State Reserve?
In 1916 the monastery at Issyk-Kul was attacked by Kyrgyz rebels, and seven monks were killed. The first nature reserve in Kyrgyzstan, Issyk-Kul State Reserve was established in 1948 to protect unique nature landscapes and waterfowl at Issyk-Kul. In 1975, it was acknowledged as a Ramsar site.
Did Kyrgyz archaeologists find 2500-year-old civilization on Lake Baikal?
In 2007, Dr Ploskikh, vice president of the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences, reported that archaeologists had discovered the remains of a 2500-year-old advanced civilization on the lake’s floor.
