| Khar Lake | |
| Pushpin Map: | Mongolia |
| Location: | Great Lakes Depression, Western Mongolia |
| Coords: | 48.08°N 93.2°W |
| Lake Type: | eutrophic |
| Inflow: | Chono Kharaikh Gol |
| Outflow: | Teeliin Gol |
| Catchment: | 76800km2[1] |
| Basin Countries: | Mongolia, Russia[2] |
| Length: | 37km (23miles) |
| Width: | 24km (15miles) |
| Area: | 575km2 |
| Depth: | 4.2m (13.8feet) |
| Max-Depth: | 7m (23feet) |
| Volume: | 2.422km3 |
| Residence Time: | 1.7 |
| Elevation: | 1132.3m (3,714.9feet) |
| Frozen: | December - April |
Khar Lake (Mongolian: Хар нуур,, lit. "black lake"is located in the Khovd aimag (province) in western Mongolia's Great Lakes Depression.
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.
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]
| 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.