Kypshak (), also known as Azhibeksor (; ), is a
salt lake
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in
Nura District
Nura District (, ) is a district of Karaganda Region in central Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the settlement of Nura. The district has a population of 22,569 as of 2019.
Geography
The district is located in the Kazakh U ...
,
Karaganda Region
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,
Kazakhstan
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.
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In the 1930s Kypshak dried up and turned into a
salt pan,
but in the following decades it filled up once more and on the
USSR
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topographic map of 1989 it was marked again as a lake.
Geography
Kypshak is a roughly triangular-shaped lake that lies at above sea level. It is located to the southwest of
Lake Tengiz
Tengiz Lake (, ''Teñız kölı''; ) is a saline lake in Korgalzhyn District, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan.
On 16 October 1976, the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 23 unintentionally splashed down into the northern part of the lake, which was frozen, c ...
and to the west of lake
Kerey.
[''Nature of Kazakhstan: Encyclopedia'' / General editor. B. O. Jakyp. - ]Almaty
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: "Kazakh Encyclopedia" LLP, 2011. T.Z. - 304 pages. ISBN 9965-893-64-0 (T.Z.), ISBN 9965-893-19-5
It is an
endorheic lake
An endorheic lake (also called a sink lake or terminal lake) is a collection of water within an endorheic basin, or sink, with no evident outlet. Endorheic lakes are generally Saline water, saline as a result of being unable to get rid of solutes ...
, having no outflow. long river Kypshak flows into the lake from the northwest, and smaller river Akkoshkar from the west.
See also
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Sor (geomorphology)
A sor (; ) is a closed drainless depression characteristic of the Central Asian deserts, found especially in Kazakhstan. The sor area is seasonally flooded, forming a lake, which becomes an inland salt marsh and then a Salt pan (geology), salt fl ...
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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
SARYARKA - Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan
{{Lakes of Kazakhstan
Lakes of Kazakhstan
Endorheic lakes of Asia
Karaganda Region
Tengiz basin