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Mingbulak Nature Monument

A protected desert area in western Namangan region, set up in 1991 to preserve the Oqqum sands and their landscape.

NatureFounded 1991

About the place

The Mingbulak nature monument protects a stretch of desert landscape in Mingbuloq district, in the western part of Namangan region in the Fergana Valley. It was established on 28 December 1991 and consists of two separate plots, one of 531.1 hectares and the other of 341.5 hectares.

The protected land includes the Oqqum sands, an area of dunes in a valley better known for irrigated farmland. The monument shows a side of the Fergana Valley that most visitors miss: open sand and desert plants instead of cotton fields and orchards.

Why go

  • Oqqum sand dunes
  • Two protected plots
  • Desert side of the Fergana Valley

Sources (2)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.uz.wikipedia.org

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