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Lake Tuzkan

A large, brackish desert lake in Jizzakh region, the southern part of the Aydar-Arnasay lake system at the eastern edge of the Kyzylkum.

Nature

About the place

Unlike its neighbours in the Arnasay system, which formed from drainage and flood water in the 20th century, Tuzkan is a natural lake, though people have changed it greatly. Before the mid-20th century it filled only with spring snowmelt and often dried out in summer.

Today it covers around 700 square kilometres, roughly triangular, about 35 km long and joined to Aydarkul in the north-west. It lies in Forish district, about 56 km from Jizzakh, and its water is strongly mineralised.

Why go

  • Natural lake on the edge of the Kyzylkum
  • Part of the Aydar-Arnasay system
  • Wide, empty desert shores

Sources (5)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.en.wikipedia.org
  3. 3.ru.wikipedia.org
  4. 4.uz.wikipedia.org
  5. 5.openstreetmap.org

Nearby

  • Nature

    29 km away

    Ortachekuv Rocks

    Band of rock outcrops more than 10 km long on the northeastern foothills of the Nurata mountains in Forish district, near Koratosh and Nurak villages.

  • Nurata Nature ReserveNature

    57 km away

    Nurata Nature Reserve

    A strict state reserve on the northern slopes of the Nuratau ridge, set up to protect walnut and fruit woodland and the wild sheep that live there.

  • Aydarkul LakeNature

    57 km away

    Aydarkul Lake

    A large lake on the edge of the Kyzylkum desert, formed in the 1960s from overflow water, with yurt camps and sandy shores.

  • Museums

    58 km away

    Hamid Olimjon and Zulfiya Museum

    Museum of the poets Hamid Olimjon and Zulfiya, opened in 2017 in the Khoja Nuriddin madrasa of 1902 in the centre of Jizzakh.