Uvs Nuur Watershed (Mongolia and Russia)
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q739065
Library of congress:
sh 97004769
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 96-222742: Mir Ubsunurskoĭ kotloviny, 1994:t.p. (Uvs-Nuur Hollow)
Wikipedia description:
Uvs Lake Basin (also Uvs Nuur Basin or Ubs Nuur Basin; Mongolian: Увс нуурын хотгор, romanized: Uws nuuriin hotgor) is an endorheic basin located on the territorial border of Mongolia and Russia. The basin is part of the Central Asian Internal Drainage Basin and is named after Uvs Lake (Uvs Nuur, Ubsu Nur), a large saline lake situated in the western part of its drainage basin, and is one of the last remnants of the mammoth steppes. Uvs Lake is a shallow lake with an area of 3,350 km2 (1,290 sq mi). The basin, which includes several smaller lakes, is 70,000 km2 (27,000 sq mi).
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