The Chara Sands is an area of sand in Siberia near the Kodar and Udokan mountain ranges. It is a small desert wide by long, located in the Charsk basin amid the valleys of Chara, Middle Sakukan and Upper Sakukan rivers. The rapid change from the

pine A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family (biology), family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The World Flora Online created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanic ...

and

larch Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the north and high on mountains furt ...

forests and

peat bog A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, and muskeg; a ...

s to the sand has no transition zone—this is one of the peculiarities of this unusual area, besides the roaming

sand dunes A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune system or a dune complex. A large dune complex is called a dune field, while broad, f ...

and the

oases In ecology, an oasis (; ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment File:Chara sands 2013 NASA.jpg, Chara Sands, Zabaikalsky region File:Чарские пески, вид с самолета.jpg, File:Чарские Пески. Чудо-природы.jpg, Solitary dwarf pines and larchs File:Озеро Алёнушка в Чарских Песках.jpg, Lake Alyonushka File:Озеро Аленушка.jpg, Lake Alyonushka at night File:Уникальная пустыня Кодара - Чарские Пески (5 x 10 км).jpg, The edge of the sandy area. File:Цветущие пески.jpg, Blooming in the Chara Sands File:Чарские пески 1.jpg, File:Чарские пески 2.jpg, File:Чарские пески 3.jpg, File:Чарские пески в предгорьях Кодара.jpg, High dune ridge near the foothills of Kodar File:Kodar from charskie peski.jpg, The Kodar mountain range with the Chara Sands in the foreground near Novaya Chara

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Chara Sands
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