Kalkaman ( kk, Қалқаман), also known as Kalkamantuz ( kk, Қалқамантұз), are two
salt lake
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s in the
Aksu City Administration,
Pavlodar Region,
Kazakhstan
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[''ATAMEKEN: Geographical Encyclopedia.'' / General ed. B. O. Jacob. - ]Almaty
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: "Kazakh Encyclopedia", 2011. - 648 pages. ISBN 9965-893-70-5
The Kalkaman lakes are located to the WSW of
Aksu City and to the ENE of
Kalkaman
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village.
There is commercial extraction of
salt
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from the lakes. Some of the salt is exported to
Western Siberia
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Месторождения соли в РФ и странах СНГ — Павлодарское месторождение соли
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Geography
Kalkaman is a system of two endorheic lakes in the Irtysh Basin
The Irtysh ( otk, 𐰼𐱅𐰾:𐰇𐰏𐰕𐰏, Ertis ügüzüg, mn, Эрчис мөрөн, ''Erchis mörön'', "erchleh", "twirl"; russian: Иртыш; kk, Ертіс, Ertis, ; Chinese: 额尔齐斯河, pinyin: ''É'ěrqísī hé'', Xiao'erj ...
. The lakes lie at an elevation of . The area around the lakeshores is used as pasture for local cattle.
*Ulken Kalkaman (russian: Большой Калкаман, ''Bolshoy Kalkaman'') is the larger lake in the southeast. It stretches from north to south for almost and is about wide. The western shore is flat, while the northern, eastern and southern sides have steep between and high cliffs. The Irtysh flows to the east of the eastern shores of the lake.
*Kishi Kalkaman (russian: Малый Калкаман, ''Maly Kalkaman'') is the smaller and elongated lake in the northwest. It stretches roughly from northwest to southeast for and is about wide. The A17 Highway passes to the northwest of the western end of the lake.Google Earth
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See also
* List of lakes of Kazakhstan
References
External links
*
TOO - Оз. большой Калкаман
(in Russian)
{{Lakes of Kazakhstan
Endorheic lakes of Asia
Lakes of Pavlodar Region