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Lake Smaller Ritsa ( ka, პატარა რიწა), located in
Abkhazia
Abkhazia, officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a List of states with limited recognition, partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia. It cover ...
, is a lake in the
Caucasus Mountains
The Caucasus Mountains
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, surrounded by mixed
mountain forests
Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is a crucial f ...
and
subalpine meadows.
Geography
The lake located at the Pshegishkha (2217 m) mountain bottom at the height of 1235 m,
to the east from Gagra Ridge in the
Iupshara River
The Iupshara (, ) is a river in northern Abkhazia, Georgia. The river flows from Lake Ritsa, the deepest lake in Abkhazia (116 m), to the Gega River, a tributary of the Bzyb River.
The total length of the river is with a gradient
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basin, 5 kilometers to the west from the lake
Big Ritsa. Feeds by snow, rain and underground water. The length of the Smaller Ritsa is 530 m and the width is 290 m. Maximum depth of the lake is 76 m. Surface area is . In the lake lives
trout
Trout (: trout) is a generic common name for numerous species of carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the genera '' Oncorhynchus'', ''Salmo'' and ''Salvelinus'', all of which are members of the subfamily Salmoninae in the ...
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See also
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Lake Ritsa
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Lake Ritsa ( ka, რიწა, tr; ) is a lake in the north-western part of Abkhazia, in the Caucasus Mountains. It is surrounded by mixed mountain forests and subalpine meadows. The road from the Black Sea coast was built in 1936. Th ...
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Ritsa Strict Nature Reserve
Sources
* I. Abkhazava,
Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( ka, ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, tr, ქსე) is the first universal encyclopedia in the Georgian language, printed in Tbilisi from 1965, the editor ...
, T. 7, p. 709, Tbilisi., 1984 year.
References
Mountain lakes
Lakes of Abkhazia
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