Sabyndykol () is a lake in
Bayanaul District
Bayanaul (, ) is a district of Pavlodar Region in northern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the aul of Bayanaul. Population:
Geography
Bayanaul District lies in the Kazakh Uplands. high mount Akbet in the Bayanaul Rang ...
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Pavlodar Region
Pavlodar Region (; ) is a region of Kazakhstan. The population of the region was and The latest official estimate (as at the start of 2022) was 756,511. Its capital is the city of Pavlodar, which had a population of 360,014 at the start of 201 ...
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
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The lake lies by the town of
Bayanaul
Bayanaul () is a settlement in Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan. It is the capital of Bayanaul District and the administrative center of the Bayanaul rural district (KATO code - 553630100). Population:
History
The village of Bayan-Aul was founded ...
, located on the northern shore. Sabyndykol falls within the perimeter of the
Bayanaul National Park
The Bayanaul State National Nature Park is a national park in Kazakhstan located on the outskirts of the Kazakh Uplands in the northeastern Pavlodar Province, 140 km from the city of Ekibastuz. Established in 1985, it is Kazakhstan's first n ...
, a
protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood ...
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Geography
Sabyndykol lies in a small tectonic depression of the Kazakh Uplands
The Kazakh Uplands or the Kazakh Hummocks, known in Kazakh as the ( , ; ), is a large peneplain formation extending throughout the central and eastern regions of Kazakhstan. , just below the slopes of Bayanaul Range
Bayanaul Range (; ) is a mountain range in Bayanaul District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.Kanysh Satpaev. Encyclopedia / Editor-in-Chief B. O. Jakyp. — Almaty "Kazakh Encyclopedia", 2011. ISBN 9965-893-74-8
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, to the south of the eastern part of the mountains. It is the largest of the lakes of the range area, but Tuzkol, located to the southwest, is the largest of the district.
The water of Sabyndykol is fresh
Fresh may refer to:
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* ''Fresh'' (1994 film), a crime film
* ''Fresh'' (2009 film), a documentary film on sustainable agriculture
* ''Fresh'' (2022 film), a thriller film
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. There are no big rivers flowing into the lake, only intermittent streams, the largest of which has its mouth in the northwestern shore. The lake has a maximum depth of to in the deepest areas.
The northern, southern and southeastern shores are steep with to high cliffs, which in some places merge with the rocky slopes of the range. The eastern shore is sandy and gently sloping.Google Earth
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Flora and fauna
The flat sections of the shoreline are overgrown with reeds
Reed or Reeds may refer to:
Science, technology, biology, and medicine
* Reed bird (disambiguation)
* Reed pen, writing implement in use since ancient times
* Reed (plant), one of several tall, grass-like wetland plants of the order Poales
* Re ...
. The main fish species found in the lake are pike
Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to:
Fish
* Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct color morph of the yellow walleye ''Sander vitreus''
* Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes
* ''Esox'', genus of ...
, roach
Roach or The Roach may refer to:
Animals
* Cockroach, various insect species of the order Blattodea
* Common roach (''Rutilus rutilus''), a fresh and brackish water fish of the family Cyprinidae
** ''Rutilus'' or roaches, a genus of fishes
* Cal ...
, tench
The tench or doctor fish (''Tinca tinca'') is a freshwater, fresh- and brackish water, brackish-water fish of the order Cypriniformes found throughout Eurasia from Western Europe including Great Britain, Britain and Ireland east into Asia as far ...
and perch
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, but not in great numbers.Current state of the ecosystem of the lake Sabyndykol
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See also
*List of lakes of Kazakhstan
Excluding the northernmost districts, Kazakhstan consists of endorheic basins, where rivers flow into one of the numerous lakes. The most important drainage system is known as Yedisu, meaning "seven rivers" in Turkic languages. Below is a list o ...
References
External links
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«Добро пожаловать в Казахстан». Связано ли название озера Сабындыколь с красавицей Баян сулу?
Lake Sabyndykol / Сабындыкөл / Озеро Сабындыколь
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Lakes of Pavlodar Region