Kishi-Karoy

Kishi-Karoy or Kishi Karaoy, meaning "Little Karoy" (; ), is a bittern salt lake in Akzhar District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan.Lakes in the Central Kazakhstan

The Kazakhstan–Russia border lies about to the northwest and northeast of the northern shores of the lake. Kishi-Karoy village, formerly Kievskoye, Bostandyk, Baytus and Kenashchi, formerly Menzhinskoye, are the nearest inhabited localities.

Geography Kishi-Karoy lies in the southern part of the Ishim Plain, the southernmost sector of the West Siberian Plain. It is an endorheic lake located at the bottom of a depression.The Origin of the Depression Lake Systems Larger lake Ulken-Karoy (Big Karoy) lies to the east and Kalibek and Alabota to the southwest. Lake Ebeyty lies to the NNE, on the Russian side of the border. In the summer Kishi-Karoy shrinks and becomes hypersaline and in years of drought the lake may dry completely up.Киши-Карой; Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 30 vols. — Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (in Russian)

Kishi-Karoy is surrounded by salt marshes. The bottom is flat, in parts clayey. The lake is mainly fed by snow. No significant rivers feed its waters.Google Earth

Flora Kishi-Karoy is surrounded by the arid Kazakh Steppe landscape where the main vegetation is sagebrush and fescue.

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