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Upon completion, the lake will span 2,000 square kilometres (770 sq mi) with a maximum depth of 70 metres (230 ft), and hold more than 130 cubic kilometers (4600 billion cubic feet) of water. Filling the lake could take 15 years and cost up to $ 4.5 billion. According to government
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valley to the east. The two flows merged and formed or expanded Horezm Lake, which had been formed by the earlier Khvalinian period, and as it overflowed northwards it carved its link with the Aral Sea along the Akcha Dar'ya population corridor of that low, gentle valley (a remote community of
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plans, it is intended to be filled by a 2,650-kilometer (1,650 mi) network of tributary canals. The Dashoguz Collector, spanning a distance of 432 kilometers, traces approximately half of its course along the historic path of the
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was partly restored, but the South Aral Sea ebbed to a small-size stasis at its river mouth, which itself dried up by 2014, leaving only fragments of the former sea behind, such as
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The population is sparse, with an average of one person per 6.5 km (2.5 sq mi). Rainfall is also rare, ranging from 70 to 150 mm (3 to 6 in) per year.
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and is 720 km (450 mi) long. They are used for pumping run-off water from irrigated cotton fields towards the lake.
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then to the Caspian Sea. Sedimentation and floods during a pluvial period led to overflow to the
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and remnants of alkaline mineral deposits, washed into the basin from irrigated fields.
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which has a steep east bank. It adjoins, to the north, the long delta feeding the
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mountains, flow west, and empty into the desert, providing water for irrigation.
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The desert is crossed by the second-largest irrigation canal in the world, the
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in this area is not very diverse and includes insects and arachnids such as
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Within the north-west edge of the desert used to be a river. In the late
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river to the northeast, demarcating the long border with the
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The sands of the Aral Karakum are made of finely-dispersed
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Index

Qaraqum
Aral Karakum
Karakorum
Karakoram


NASA World Wind
Turkmenistan
Central Asia
Coordinates
40°30′N 60°00′E / 40.500°N 60.000°E / 40.500; 60.000
/ˈkærəkʌm/
KARR-ə-kum
[kərɐˈkumɨ]
[ɢɑɾɑˈʁʊm]
desert
Central Asia
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
Caspian Sea
South Aral Sea
endorheic lake
Amu Darya
Kyzylkum Desert
Uzbekistan
salt marshes
Aralkum
seabed
Aral Sea
Soviet Union

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