Khar-Us Lake ( mn, Хар-Ус нуур, Har-Us nuur; "Black-Aqua Lake", zh, 哈尔乌斯湖, 黑水湖) is a lake in western
Mongolia
Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, ...
in the
Great Lakes Depression
The Great Lakes Depression ( mn, Их нууруудын хотгор, ''Ikh Nuuruudyn Khotgor''), also called the Great Lakes' Hollow, is a large semi-arid depression in Mongolia that covers parts of the Uvs, Khovd, Bayan-Ölgii, Zavkhan and ...
. It is the upper one in a system of the interconnected lakes: Khar-Us,
Khar Khar may refer to:
Places
* Khar, Mumbai, a suburb of Mumbai, India
* Khar, Punjab, a town in the Punjab Province, Pakistan
* Khar, Bajaur, a town in the Bajaur Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
* Khar, Nepal, a village ...
,
Dörgön,
Airag and
Khyargas. The lake is located in
Har Us Nuur National Park
Har Us Nuur National Park ( mn, Хар Ус Нуур) covers a chain of three large lakes in the Great Lakes Basin of western Mongolia. The lakes, Khar-Us Nuur, Khar Lake and Dörgön Lake are bordered by marshes and reed-beds that are an import ...
.
Its area value (1,852 km
2) includes the island ''Agbash'' (or ''Ak-Bashi'', ''white head'') area (274 km
2), so the water surface area is 1,578 km
2 only.
["Khar-Us Nuur"]
''Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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Some sources are using different Khar-Us Lake Lake statistics values:
["Surface Water of Mongolia", Gombo Davaa, Dambaravjaa Oyunbaatar, Michiaki Sugita](_blank)
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*Water level: 1,160.08 m
*Surface area: 1,496.6 km2
*Average depth: 2.1 m
*Volume: 3.12 km³.
Primary inflow
Inflow may refer to:
* Inflow (hydrology), the water entering a body of water
* Inflow (meteorology)
Inflow is the flow of a fluid into a large collection of that fluid. Within meteorology, inflow normally refers to the influx of warmth and moi ...
is the Khovd River
Khovd River ( mn, Ховд гол, Howd gol, ) is a river in Mongolia. It flows from Tavan Bogd mountain of the Altai Mountains
The Altai Mountains (), also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central and East Asia, where Russia ...
, which creates a large river delta
A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by deposition (geology), deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water. This occurs where a river enters an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, res ...
.
So called Genghis Khan's wall
''Chinggis Khaan'' ͡ʃʰiŋɡɪs xaːŋbr />Mongol script: ''Chinggis Qa(gh)an/ Chinggis Khagan''
, birth_name = Temüjin
, successor = Tolui (as regent)Ögedei Khan
, spouse =
, issue =
, house = Borjigin
, ...
runs along the western shore of the Khar-Us Lake. It is possible to find it at the Google Map
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and Google Earth
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satellite maps .
References
Lakes of Mongolia
Ramsar sites in Mongolia
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