Khar Lake (Khovd)
Lake in Khovd Province, Mongolia
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Khar Lake (Mongolian: Хар нуур; lit. 'Black Lake') is located in Khovd Province in western Mongolia's Great Lakes Depression.
| Khar Lake | |
|---|---|
| ᠬᠠᠷᠠᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ (Mongolian) | |
The western shore of Khar Nuur | |
  Khar Lake Location within Mongolia | |
| Location | Great Lakes Depression, Western Mongolia |
| Coordinates | 48.08°N 93.2°E |
| Lake type | eutrophic |
| Chono Kharaikh Gol | |
| Teeliin Gol | |
| 76,800 km2 (29,700 sq mi)[1] | |
| Basin countries | Mongolia, Russia[2] |
| Max. length | 37 km (23 mi) |
| Max. width | 24 km (15 mi) |
| 575 km2 (222 sq mi) | |
Average depth | 4.2 m (14 ft) |
| Max. depth | 7 m (23 ft) |
| 2.422 km3 (0.581 cu mi) | |
| Residence time | 1.7 years |
Surface elevation | 1,132.3 m (3,715 ft) |
| Frozen | December - April |
Name
It is also known as Ha-la Hu, Hara Nuur, Har Nuur, Khara Nur, Khar Nuur, and Ozero Kara-Nor[3]
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:[4]
- Water level: 1,134.08 m
- Surface area: 565.2 km²
- Average depth: 4.14 m
- Volume: 2.34 km3.
Water Balance
| Surface input | Surface output | Groundwater inflow- outflow |
Retention time, years | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Precipitation | Inflow | Evaporation | Outflow | ||
| 54.0 | 1,786.9 | 1,117.8 | 1,287.9 | +564.8 | 1.7 |
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.
