Alakol District ( kk, Алакөл ауданы, ) is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivision ...

Jetisu Region Jetisu Region (; ), sometimes spelled Zhetysu Region, is a region of Kazakhstan. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced on 16 March 2022 that the region would be created. The area split off from Almaty Region when Tokayev's decree came ...

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. The administrative center of the district is the town of

Usharal Usharal ( kz, Үшарал, ''Üşaral''; russian: Ушарал) is a town in the Alakol District of Almaty Region in south-eastern Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly ...

. Population: The

Tunkuruz Hydroelectric Power Plant Tunkuruz Hydroelectric Power Plant is a hydroelectric power plant in Beskol village, Alakol District, in Almaty Province Almaty Region ( kk, Алматы облысы, Almaty oblysy; russian: Алматинская область, Almatinskaya ...

is located in the district.

Geography

The district is located in the Balkhash-Alakol Depression. Parts of its eastern border (where the district borders on

East Kazakhstan Region East Kazakhstan Region ( kk, Шығыс Қазақстан облысы, translit=Şyğys Qazaqstan oblysy; russian: Восточно-Казахстанская область, Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya oblast) is a region of Kazakhstan. It occupi ...

) run through the chain of lakes - Lakes Sasykkol, Koshkarkol, Alakol, and Zhalanashkol. There are no major rivers in the district; the fairly small Tentek River, which flows toward Lake Sasykkol, but reaches it only intermittently, is the largest one.

References

Districts of Kazakhstan Almaty Region {{Almaty-geo-stub