tailieunhanh - The Aral Sea Encyclopedia - K

K Kaitpa – deep pits in the Amudarya riverbed that are erodeded as the water flows in the river meanders. Kamyslybas, Kamyslybasi Lake – the largest water body in the Kamyslybas lake system (see). Located in the Syrdarya valley, in the depression between bald mountains. | K Kaitpa - deep pits in the Amudarya riverbed that are erodeded as the water flows in the river meanders. Kamyslybas Kamyslybasi Lake - the largest water body in the Kamyslybas lake system see . Located in the Syrdarya valley in the depression between bald mountains. It extends from the west to the east. Its length is approximately 30 km and its width reaches 9 km in some places. The maximum depth is 10 m and the surface area is about 178 sq. km. Its coastline is 116 km long and its elevation is 58 m above sea level. The water level in the lake is subject to fluctuations dependent on the quantity of water from the Syrdarya. The eastern coast is flat and sandy. The railroad Kyzyl-Orda - Aralsk runs along the shore. The southern shore is elevated in some places rising steeply up to 23 m and is flat composed of gray marls and loams near the bay. The northern shore is high and steep in some places up to 50 m nearly along its whole run and is composed of loams with some outcrops of gypsum. The southwestern part is flat a lake bay up to 4 km long connects here via a channel with the Syrdarya. The ground is silty gray silt closer to the shore sandy in some places and stony gravel and pebble in others. In the reed thickets the silt is black containing plant remnants and slightly smelling of hydrogen sulfide. Silt deposits in the central part of the lake may be up to 150 cm thick. The lake was populated with fish 1960 common carp pike roach sea roach pike catfish perch and others. The shores were nesting places of birds ducks geese sandpipers and others. Muskrats lived in the cane thickets. In the southern part of the lake nearby the Koszhar settlement a fish farm supplies fish fries to the Kamyslybas Akshatau and Karakol Lakes. Before 1968 up to 70 thou quintals of fish were caught here. After 1977 to maintain a certain level in the lake water was pumped here from the Syrdarya. Thus in 1977 the maximum depth of . was 6 m while in 1978 it had already reached 10 m. These