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Lake Smaller Ritsa, located in
Abkhazia, is a lake in the
Caucasus Mountains
The Caucasus Mountains,
: pronounced
* hy, Կովկասյան լեռներ,
: pronounced
* az, Qafqaz dağları, pronounced
* rus, Кавка́зские го́ры, Kavkázskiye góry, kɐfˈkasːkʲɪje ˈɡorɨ
* tr, Kafkas Dağla ...
, 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 lapse rate, fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is ...
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 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 are species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera '' Oncorhynchus'', '' Salmo'' and '' Salvelinus'', all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae. The word ''trout'' is also used as part of the name of some non-salm ...
.
See also
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Lake Ritsa
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Lake Ritsa ( ab, Риҵа, ka, რიწა, tr) is a lake in the north-western part of the Georgia, in the Caucasus Mountains. It surrounded by mixed mountain forests and subalpine meadows. The road from the Black Sea coast was buil ...
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Ritsa Strict Nature Reserve
Ritsa Strict Nature Reserve (Georgian: რიწის დაცული ტერიტორია) is a protected area in the Gudauta District of Abkhazia, in the country of Georgia. The reserve's main goal is to protect Lake Ritsa and con ...
Sources
* I. Abkhazava,
Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( ka, ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, ქსე) is the first universal encyclopedia in the Georgian language, printed in Tbilisi from 1965, the editor in chi ...
, T. 7, p. 709, Tbilisi., 1984 year.
References
Mountain lakes
Lakes of Abkhazia
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