Lake type eutrophic Primary outflows Teeliin Gol Max. width 24 km (15 mi) Area 575 km² Length 37 km Catchment area 76,800 km² | Primary inflows Max. length 37 km (23 mi) Surface elevation 1,132 m Mean depth 4.2 m Catchment area 76,800 km² Basin countries Mongolia, Russia | |
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Location Great Lakes Depression, Western Mongolia | ||
Khar Lake (Mongolian: Хар нуур, lit. "black lake"), is located in the Khovd aimag (province) in western Mongolia's Great Lakes Depression.
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Map of Khar Lake, Mongolia
Name
It is also known as Ha-la Hu, Hara Nuur, Har Nuur, Khara Nur, Khar Nuur, and Ozero Kara-Nor
It should be distinguished from the similarly named Khar Lake (Zavkhan), another lake further east in Mongolia.
Description
It is part of a group of lakes that were once part of a larger prehistoric lake that disappeared 5,000 years ago as the region became drier.
Some sources are using different Khar Lake statistics values:
Water Balance
Khar Lake has a single inflow - Chono Kharaikh Gol river, which creates a river delta.
Khar Lake has a connection to Dörgön Nuur south of it.
References
Khar Lake (Khovd) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA