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Kalibek ( kk, Қалыбек; russian: Калибек) is a
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salt lake A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre). ...
in Taiynsha District,
North Kazakhstan Region North Kazakhstan Region ( kk, Солтүстік Қазақстан облысы, translit=Soltüstık Qazaqstan oblysy; russian: Северо-Казахстанская область, translit=Severo-Kazakhstanskaya oblast) is a region of Kazakh ...
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Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental coun ...
. Taiynsha town, the administrative center of the district, lies to the west of the lake.


Geography

Kalibek lies in the southern part of the
Ishim Plain Ishim Steppe (russian: Ишимская равнина, kk, Есіл даласы, ''Yesil dalasy'') is a plain in the southern part of Western Siberia, between the Irtysh and Tobol rivers. Administratively it is part of Kurgan Oblast, Kurgan, T ...
, southwest of the Russian border. 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 as a result of being unable to get rid of solutes left in the l ...
located in a depression between Shaglyteniz to the west and Kishi-Karoy to the east. Alabota lake lies to the ESE. Google Earth Kalibek is fed mainly by snow and rain. The lake bottom is clayey and its shores are low and gently-sloping. Its surface greatly decreases after the spring floods.Калибек
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'' in 30 vols. — Ch. ed.
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. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (in Russian)
A number of intermittent small streams flow into the lakeshore, the two main ones from the southwest. Ushsay, a small, narrow lake located in the northeast, is connected to Kalibek by a channel. Formerly there was exploitation of salt for commercial purposes at the lake.Saline lakes of Northern Kazakhstan: Geochemical correlations of elements and controls on their accumulation in water and bottom sediments
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See also

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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 the list o ...


References


External links

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Kalibek — Lakes - LakeNetGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES CONTROLLING THE WATER CHEMISTRY OF SALINE LAKES IN THE NORTH KAZAKHSTAN REGIONИНТЕЛЛЕКТУАЛЬНАЯ НАЦИЯ В ФОКУСЕ ГУМАНИТАРНЫХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ
(in Russian) {{Lakes of Kazakhstan Lakes of Kazakhstan Endorheic lakes of Asia North Kazakhstan Region West Siberian Plain