Yeravna-Khorga Lake System (Russian: Еравно-Хоргинской системы озёр) is a group of relatively shallow fresh water bodies in the Yeravninsky District, Buryatia, Russia. The villages of Isinga, Khorga, Tuldun, Gunda, Shiringa, Garam, as well as Sosnovo-Ozerskoye, the district capital, are located near the lakes.[2]
| Yeravna-Khorga Lake System | |
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| Еравно-Хоргинской системы озёр | |
 Yeravna-Khorga Lake System map section | |
  Yeravna-Khorga Lake System Location in Buryatia, Russian Far East | |
| Location | Vitim Plateau, South Siberian System |
| Coordinates | 52°42′N 111°32′E / 52.700°N 111.533°E[1] |
| Primary outflows | Kholoy |
| Basin countries | Buryatia, Russia |
| Max. depth | 5 m (16 ft) |
| Surface elevation | ca 950 m (3,117 ft) |
| Frozen | October to May |
There are fisheries of local importance in most of the lakes of the group.[3]
Geography edit
The lake system lies in the Yeravna Depression, at the southern end of the Vitim Plateau. It includes 6 large lakes and several smaller ones aligned in a roughly NE/SW direction for about 70 km (43 mi). The catchment area of the lake system is located in a forest steppe zone.
Bolshoy Yeravna (Big Yeravna) is the largest lake of the group,[3] followed by neighboring Maly Yeravna (Small Yeravna).[4] Other lakes of the system include Sosnovo, Khaimisanov and Bolshoy Goluboy —with Goluboy and Maly Goluboy close to it— in the southern cluster, known as "Yeravna Lakes" (Russian: Еравнинские озёра). There are many small lakes further to the southwest.
In the northern section lie Gunda, Eksend (Эксенд), Arshan, Khynter (Хынтер), Khorga and Malaya Khorga, as well as Isinga, the northernmost of the group.[5][2]
Hydrography edit
When the water levels are high the Yeravna lakes are connected with each other by intermittent channels. The outlet of the lake area is via the Khorga lakes to the northeast through the Kholoy, a small, shallow tributary of the Vitim River flowing from Isinga lake at the northeastern end.[3]
See also edit
- List of lakes of Russia
- Ivan-Arakhley Lake System, a similar lake formation located about 100 km (62 mi) to the southeast, in Zabaykalsky Krai.
Bibliography edit
- A. M. Plyusnin & E. G. Peryazeva, Hydrological and hydrochemical characteristics of the lakes in the Eravninskaya depression, 2012, DOI 10.1134/s1875372812020060
References edit
- ^ Google Earth
- ^ a b "N-49 Chart (in Russian)". Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- ^ a b c Большое Еравное озеро - Water of Russia
- ^ Малое Еравное озеро - Water of Russia
- ^ "Озеро Исингинское in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).
External links edit
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