Petregan playa (in
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
: دق پترگان) is a
playa
Playa (plural playas) may refer to:
Landforms
* Endorheic basin, also known as a sink, alkali flat or sabkha, a desert basin with no outlet which periodically fills with water to form a temporary lake
* Dry lake, often called a ''playa'' in the so ...
(دق ''dagh'' in Persian) in eastern
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
next to the border with Afghanistan.
It is located in the
Zirkuh County
Zirkuh County ( fa, شهرستان زيركوه) is in South Khorasan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Hajjiabad. At the 2006 census, the region's population (as Zirkuh and Zohan Districts of Qaen County
Qaen Cou ...
in
South Khorasan Province
South Khorasan Province ( fa, استان خراسان جنوبی ''Ostān-e Khorāsān-e Jonūbī'') is a province located in eastern Iran. Birjand is the centre of the province. The other major cities are Ferdows, Tabas and Qaen. In 2014, it wa ...
, 610 m above sea level and most of its area lies within Iranian territory.
Footprints of
pre-historical animals have been found in this playa. Research by Iranian scholars on 40 footprints shows that these animals moved in groups from east to west and the area at that time was a muddy marshland.
Sourcesirandeserts.com
accessed Febr. 2009. (in Persian)
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Deserts of Iran
Geography of Razavi Khorasan Province
Salt flats of Iran