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Bakhtegan Lake

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Amirkhani, Masoud; Zarei, Heidar; Radmanesh, Fereydoun; Pande, Saket (2022). "An operational sociohydrological model to understand the feedbacks between community sensitivity and environmental flows for an endorheic lake basin, lake Bakhtegan, Iran".
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Despite being naturally segregated by narrow strips of land, they used to join to form a single lake during years of heavy rainfall. The lakes became completely dry from 2008 through 2010 and the ecosystem has suffered adverse effects.
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The two lakes, their delta and spring-fed marshes covering 108,000 hectares (270,000 acres) were designated as Wetlands of International Importance by the
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With a surface area of 3,500 square kilometres (1,400 sq mi), Bakhtegan was Iran's second-largest lake. It was fed by the
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was fed by overflow from the marshes at its west end and by a large permanent spring in the northwest.
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Lake Bakhtegan, once Iran's second largest lake, was fed mostly by the Kur River, while
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Lake Bakhtegan. Lake Tashk immediately to the north, Lake Maharlou to the west
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Conservation of Iranian Wetlands Project. 227:, and extirpated the lake's populations of 462: 448: 440: 31: 208:, about 160 km (99 mi) east of 288: 61: 163:3,500 km (1,400 sq mi) 7: 852:International Wetland (Ramsar Site) 193: 25: 854:- All names as inscribed by the 60: 53: 40: 856:Department of Environment, Iran 258:and had a population of 50,000 158: 1: 373:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127375 269:Ramsar Convention on Wetlands 435:Columbia Encyclopedia entry 901: 880:Landforms of Fars province 610:National Natural Monuments 844: 48: 39: 393:. BirdLife International 331:. 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Bakhtegan National Park
Aerial view of Lake Bakhtegan
Lake Bakhtegan is located in Iran
29°21′55″N 53°50′19″E / 29.3654°N 53.8385°E / 29.3654; 53.8385
Type
Salt lake
Primary inflows
Kor River
Basin
Islands
Menak Island
Persian
salt lake
Fars Province
Iran
Shiraz
Neyriz
Kor River
salinity
flamingos
migratory birds
Lake Tashk
ducks
Phoenicopterus ruber
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands



"Bakhtegan Ecology Alarming", Iran Daily, Aug. 9, 2007
"Bakhtegan wetland shrinking, flamingo chicks in danger"

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