Zhaksykylysh ( kk, Жақсықылыш; russian: Жаксыкылыш) is a
salt lake in
Aral District
Aral ( kk, Арал ауданы, , ارال اۋدانى) is a district of Kyzylorda Region in southern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the town of Aral. Population:
Geography
Lake Zhaksykylysh lies in the district, ...
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Kyzylorda Region
Kyzylorda Region ( kk, Қызылорда облысы, translit=Qyzylorda oblysy; russian: Кызылординская область, translit=Kyzylordinskaya oblast) is a region of Kazakhstan. Its capital is the city of Kyzylorda, with a pop ...
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
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Table salt
Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of a natural crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantitie ...
is being mined in Zhaksykylysh since 1925. Nowadays the
Kyzylorda
Kyzylorda ( kk, Қызылорда, translit=Qyzylorda, ), formerly known as Kzyl-Orda (russian: Кзыл-Орда), Ak-Mechet (Ак-Мечеть), Perovsk (Перовск), and Fort-Perovsky (Форт-Перовский), is a city in south-cen ...
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Araltuz company carries out the salt-mining operations. Over 99% of the refined table salt produced in Kazakhstan is extracted at the Zhaksykylysh salt lakes, of which about 66% is exported.
''Production of salt in the Aral Sea area'' - aboutkazakhstan.com
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Geography
Lake Zhaksykylysh lies about to the northeast of the Aral Sea in the western part of the Aral Karakum Desert region. The Zhaksykylysh Range, a mountain chain of moderate elevation, limits the lake to the northwest. A multitude of smaller lakes and salt flats fan-out to the east in the adjoining flat land. In the same manner as most lakes in the region, Zhaksykylysh is an endorheic lake
An endorheic lake (also called a sink lake or terminal lake) is a collection of water within an endorheic basin, or sink, with no evident outlet. Endorheic lakes are generally saline as a result of being unable to get rid of solutes left in the l ...
.[Zhaksykylysh // ''Kazakhstan National Encyclopedia''. - Almaty: Kazakh encyclopedias, 2005. - T. II. — ISBN 9965-9746-3-2][ Google Earth]
Zhaksykylysh was affected by the drying of the Aral Sea basin in recent decades. Currently the lake surface has shrunk. The lake is shallow and has water only following the melting of the snows in the spring. By July it turns into a dry, salt-covered depression. The thickness of the salt layer in the lake ranges between and .[ATAMEKEN: Geographical encyclopedia. / General ed. B. O. Jacob. - Almaty: "Kazakh Encyclopedia", 2011. - 648 pages. ISBN 9965-893-70-5]
See also
*List of lakes of Kazakhstan
Excluding the northernmost districts, Kazakhstan consists of endorheic basins, where rivers flow into one of the numerous lakes. The most important drainage system is known as Yedisu, meaning "seven rivers" in Turkic languages. Below is the list ...
References
External links
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Lake Zhaksykylysh. Araltuz. Kyzylorda region, KazakhstanKyzylorda - Information about the region
Development of biotechnological processes оf the production of cosmetological preparations based on plant and salt-containing raw materials of Southern Kazakhstan
Lake groups of Kazakhstan
Endorheic lakes of Asia
Kyzylorda Region
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