Bayanaul Range ( kk, Баянауыл тауы; russian: Баянаульские горы) is a range of mountains in
Bayanaul District
Bayanaul ( kk, Баянауыл ауданы, ) is a district of Pavlodar Region in northern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the selo of Bayanaul. Population:
Geography
Bayanaul District lies in the Kazakh Uplands. hi ...
,
Pavlodar Region
Pavlodar Region ( kk, Павлодар облысы, translit=Pavlodar oblysy; russian: Павлодарская область, translit=Pavlodarskaya oblast) is a region of Kazakhstan. The population of the region was and ; the latest official ...
,
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
.
[Kanysh Satpaev. Encyclopedia / Editor-in-Chief B. O. Jakyp. — Almaty "Kazakh Encyclopedia", 2011. ISBN 9965-893-74-8]
Bayanaul, the administrative center of
Bayanaul District
Bayanaul ( kk, Баянауыл ауданы, ) is a district of Pavlodar Region in northern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the selo of Bayanaul. Population:
Geography
Bayanaul District lies in the Kazakh Uplands. hi ...
, lies at the feet of the eastern slopes of the mountains. A large sector of the range is part of the
Bayanaul National Park, a
protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...
established in 1985.
Geography
The Bayanaul Range is one of the subranges of the
Kazakh Upland system (Saryarka). It rises in the northeastern sector of the highlands. The Bayanaul stretches from east to west for about with mountaintops averaging between and . The highest point is
Akbet
Akbet ( kk, Ақбет) is a mountain in Bayanaul District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.
Akbet is located about to the NNW of Bayanaul. According to local folklore, the mountain is named after a Kazakhs, Kazakh girl who killed herself there aft ...
, a high summit. The uppermost levels of the mountains are generally rocky and their slopes are deeply dissected by valleys and ravines. No major rivers have their sources in the range. Most flow into the surrounding
steppe
In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.
Steppe biomes may include:
* the montane grasslands and shrublands biome
* the temperate grasslands, ...
, their waters ending up in distant salt lakes or dispersed in the sands.
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The main lakes in the range are
Sabyndykol, the largest one, as well as
Zhasybai,
Toraigyr
Toraigyr ( kk, Торайғыр) is a lake in Bayanaul District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.Google Earth
Toraigyr falls within the perimeter of the Bayanaul National Park, a protected area. The lake is one of the places in Kazakhstan named a ...
and
Byrzhankol, the latter located in the western part of the range. There are also numerous
rock formations
A rock formation is an isolated, scenic, or spectacular surface rock outcrop. Rock formations are usually the result of weathering and erosion sculpting the existing rock. The term ''rock formation'' can also refer to specific sediment ...
within the mountain area.
Flora
Below the rocky summits the slopes are covered by forests where
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 ...
and
birch
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech-oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contains 30 ...
predominate. There is as well
steppe
In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.
Steppe biomes may include:
* the montane grasslands and shrublands biome
* the temperate grasslands, ...
vegetation made up of coarse
feathergrass and
forb
A forb or phorb is an herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid (grass, sedge, or rush). The term is used in biology and in vegetation ecology, especially in relation to grasslands and understory. Typically these are dicots without woo ...
grassland areas.
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See also
*Geography of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is located in Central Asia (with 14% of the country in Eastern Europe). With an area of about Kazakhstan is more than twice the combined size of the other four Central Asian states and 60% larger than Alaska. The country borders Turkmen ...
References
External links
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Visit Kazakhstan
Kazakh Uplands
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