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To fill the Caspian basin to a level of more than 50 metres (160 ft) would require as much as 70,000 km 3 of water, equivalent to 200 years of river discharge into the Caspian Sea. Water flowed through the Manych Spillway (250 to 1,000 km 3 per year) and some (more than 100 km 3 per year) was lost through evaporation.
The water body lends its name to the nearby city of Garabogaz. The name was originally applied to the narrow strait which connects the gulf to the Caspian Sea. Because the water in the strait, termed a "throat" (Turkmen: bogaz), was darker than the water on either side, it was termed "dark" or "black" (Turkmen: gara), hence garabogaz. Over time ...
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. [2] [3] [4] An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau.
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The Caspian's water levels, which have fluctuated sharply during the last century, have been falling since the mid 1990s, scientific studies have found. ... discussed with Russian President ...
The Caspian Depression [a] or the Caspian Lowland is a low-lying flatland region encompassing the northern part of the Caspian Sea, the largest enclosed body of water on Earth. [1] It is the larger northern part of the wider Aral–Caspian Depression around the Aral and Caspian Seas.
In the same manner as the Dead Kultuk, the Kaydak Inlet had a distinct coastline in former times, but in the 1990s and 2000s, with higher Caspian Sea levels, the water penetrated inland through the neck of the bay producing waterlogged marshes. At times of higher water level both the bay and the inlet were filled with Caspian Sea water. [3]
The maximum water depth of the lagoon in spring and in the western areas of the lagoon reaches 2.5 meters, which varies due to the fluctuations of the water level of the Caspian Sea. • 9.53%: forest and pasture • 2.33%: Agricultural lands • 7.8%: wetlands, dams and pools • 7.3%: areas used privately by people. [22]