Katynkol () is a

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Karkaraly District Karkaraly District (, ) is a district of Karaganda Region in central Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the town of Karkaraly. As of 2019, the district is home to a population of 36,025 people. Geography Karasor, an endorheic ...

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. The lake is located to the northwest of

Karkaraly Karkaraly (, ''Qarqaraly'') (, ''Karkaralinsk''), also known as Karkaralinsk, is the capital of the Karkaraly District in the Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan. Permanent settlement in the area began as a Cossack settlement, which evolved into a ...

city. Katynkol usually freezes in November and thaws in April.''Nature of Kazakhstan Encyclopedia'' / General editor. B. O. Jacob. - Almaty: " Kazakh Encyclopedia " LLP, 2011. T.Z. - 304 pages. ISBN 9965-893-64-0 (T.Z.), ISBN 9965-893-19-5

Geography

Katynkol 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 ...

part of the wide

Karasor Basin The Karasor Basin (; ) or Karasor Depression, is a Depression (geology), depression in Karkaraly District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan.Google EarthJilili Abuduwaili, Gulnura Issanova, Galymzhan Saparov. ''Hydrology and Limnology of Central Asia ...

. Its water is salty, containing

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and

magnesium chloride Magnesium chloride is an inorganic compound with the formula . It forms hydrates , where ''n'' can range from 1 to 12. These salts are colorless or white solids that are highly soluble in water. These compounds and their solutions, both of which ...

s.Karasor Lake - BirdLife Data Zone
/ref> It lies less than to the southwest of the western end of lake

Karasor Karasor (; ),
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and lake Saumalkol lies to the northwest of the northwestern shore. There is a headland in the northeastern lakeshore forming a wide bay in the northern sector of the lake. There are as well several small inlets, forming indentations up to in length. Part of the shore is steep, bound by grey

sandstone Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...

cliffs of moderate height. The lake stretches from north to south for . It is fed mainly by melted snow and groundwater, as well as some precipitation and rarely dries in the summer. River Zharym, having its sources in the northern slopes of the Karkaraly Range, flows from the south into the southern end of the lake.

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Flora

The land around Katynkol consists largely of plowed agricultural fields.News of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan
/ref> The vegetation of the flat terraced areas by the lakeshore includes

fescue ''Festuca'' (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae). They are evergreen or herbaceous perennial tufted grasses with a height range of and a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on every ...

, wormwood,

licorice Liquorice (Commonwealth English) or licorice (American English; see spelling differences; ) is the common name of ''Glycyrrhiza glabra'', a flowering plant of the bean family Fabaceae, from the root of which a sweet, aromatic flavouring is ...

and

needlegrass The term needlegrass may refer to any of several genera of grasses, including: *''Achnatherum'' *''Aristida'' (three-awns) *''Hesperostipa'' *''Nassella'' *''Stipa'' *''Triraphis'' See also * Spear grass (disambiguation) * Wiregrass (disambiguatio ...

References

External links

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Озера и реки Казахстана
(in Russian) {{Lakes of Kazakhstan Lakes of Kazakhstan Endorheic lakes of Asia Karaganda Region Kazakh Uplands Karasor Basin