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For the Baikal nature has
created a wonderful and harmonious world: here near neighbours and semi-taiga,
tundra and stone steppe, mountains, turbulent rivers, hot springs. And all this
- trees and flowers, animals and birds, peace and depth of the sun - it protects
all living water of Lake Baikal for many millions of people, blagogoveyno
touching the jewel of the world. |
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Baikal:
General information.
Lake Baikal is located in
the center of the Asian mainland.
Age: About 25 million лет years
The length of the lake - 636 km
Width: 81 km maximum, minimum 27 km
The length of coastline - about 2000 km
Depth: The maximum 1637 m, 730 m average
Baikal - 31500 km2 (8 - first place in the world)
The volume of water mass - 23000 km 3 (1 / 5 of world stocks)
The height above sea level - 456 meters
The number of islands - 30
Number of water - more than 500
Lake Baikal is derived from a river Angara
The largest influx - r.Selenga
Area watershed - 588000 km2
The largest gulfs: Barguzinsky (725 km2), Chivyrkuisky (270 km2), Proval (197
km2)
Water temperature in the open lake in summer: 16 S highest and lowest 4.2 S
Water temperature in shallow water off the coast: in August the highest 23 C,
the lowest 18 S
The most hot water in the bays: Muhor (Small Sea), Chivyrkuisky Bay,
Ambassadorial litter
Passenger navigation Period: from June to September
At the transparency of water Lake Baikal does not concede Sargassovu Sea, which
is considered a benchmark.
In Lake Baikal inhabit 1550 species and varieties of animals and 1085 species
of plant organisms.
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Protected places
Baikal-Lensky Reserve
Baikal State Reserve
Barguzin Bay, Barguzinskaya Valley district. Barguzin
Barguzin Biosphere Reserve
Aya Bay
Sandy Bay
Gore Erd
State National Park Tunkinsky
Hamar-Daban ( "Orehovy Pass")
Circumbaikal Railway
Cape Burhan, a rock Shamanka
Cape Ryty
Cape Sun
Olkhon Island
Lake Kotokel
St. Nos Peninsula, Ushkany Islands
Town Listvyanka
Pribaikalsky State National Park
More Small Strait
Zabaikalsky State National Park
Shumak sources
Chivyrkuisky Bay
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