Khurgan Lake Explained

Khurgan Lake
Pushpin Map:Mongolia
Location:Bayan-Ölgii Province, Mongolia
Coords:48.5461°N 88.6061°W
Inflow:Khovd River
Basin Countries:Mongolia
Length:23.3km (14.5miles)
Width:6km (04miles)
Area:71km2
Depth:7.8m (25.6feet)
Max-Depth:28m (92feet)
Volume:0.537km3
Elevation:2072m (6,798feet)

Khurgan Lake (Mongolian: Хурган нуур) is a lake located in the district of Tsengel, in the Bayan-Ölgii Province of western Mongolia.

The lake is connected to Khoton Lake by a wide and short channel (about 20NaN0); both, together with the Dayan Lake, feed the Khovd River.[1] Khurgan Lake is located within the Altai Tavan Bogd National Park.[2]

Climate

The climate is cold.[3] The average temperature is -4 °C. The warmest month is July, at 14 °C, and the coldest is December, at -24 °C.[4] The average rainfall is 278 millimeters per year. The wettest month is July, with 55 millimeters of rain, and the wettest is February, with 6 millimeters.[5]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.mongoliatourism.org/travel-destinations/western-mongolia/khoton-and-khurgan-lakes.html Khoton and Khurgan lakes
  2. http://www.hovsgoltravel.com/mongolia5.html Altaj Tavan Bogd
  3. Peel. M C. Finlayson. B L. Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 2007. 11. 5. 1633–1644. 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. 30 January 2016. free.
  4. Web site: NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index. 30 January 2016. NASA. 6 August 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130806035941/http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php. dead.
  5. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM). 30 January 2016. NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 13 April 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200413164725/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M. dead.