Kamkalykol ( kk, Қамқалыкөл) is a lake in the
Moiynkum District
Moiynkum ( kk, Мойынқұм ауданы, ) is a district of Jambyl Region in south-eastern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the auyl of Moiynkum.
Geography
The district is named after the Moiynkum Desert. Parts of ...
,
Jambyl Region,
Kazakhstan.
The lake is located to the ESE of
Ulanbel
Ulanbel ( kk, Ұланбел) is a village in Moiynkum District, Jambyl Region, Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center of the Ulanbel Rural District (KATO code - 315647100). Population:
Geography
The village lies at the northern edge of t ...
village. The ruins of
ghost town Kishi Kamkaly
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, abandoned in 2019, lie by the northern end of the lake. The lake water is used for watering livestock grazing in the surrounding area.
Geography
Kamkalykol lies in the lower
Shu river basin to the north of the river channel. Lake
Karakol
Karakol ( ky, Каракол, Karakol, قاراقول, ; zh, 卡拉科尔), formerly Przhevalsk (russian: Пржевальск), is the fourth-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, near the eastern tip of Lake Issyk-Kul, about from the Kyrgyzstan–C ...
is located to the northwest and lake
Zhalanash to the west. Kamkalykol stretches roughly from northwest to southeast for almost . To the south it is bound by the Shu
floodplain.
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Kamkalykol freezes in mid November and thaws in March. On average the water level rises right after the melting of the snows in the spring and decreases in the summer.
[''ATAMEKEN: Geographical encyclopedia'' / General ed. B. O. Jacob. - ]Almaty
Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the List of most populous cities in Kazakhstan, largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to ...
"Kazakh Encyclopedia", 2011. - 648 pages.
Flora
The lake is
swamp
A swamp is a forested wetland.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p. Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in ...
y, especially in its southern part. There is abundant
reed growth by the lakeshore and in shallow areas.
See also
*
List of lakes of Kazakhstan
References
External links
*
Подземные моря Уфы АхмедсафинаChu-Talas, KazakhstanОб утверждении перечня объектов государственного природно-заповедного фонда республиканского значения (On approval of the list of objects of the state natural reserve fund of republican significance)
{{Lakes of Kazakhstan
Lakes of Kazakhstan
Jambyl Region
Chu (river)