Jalpuhsee
| Jalpuhsee | ||
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| At the southern end of Jalpuhsee west of Ismajil | ||
| Geographical location | Budschak , Odessa Oblast , Ukraine | |
| Tributaries | Jalpuch , Karassulak | |
| Drain | → Kuhurluj → Danube → Black Sea | |
| Places on the shore | Bolhrad | |
| Location close to the shore | Ismajil , Reni | |
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| Coordinates | 45 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ N , 28 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 2.4 m | |
| surface | 149 km² | |
| length | 39 km | |
| width | 7 km | |
| volume | 0.387.4 km³ | |
| Maximum depth | 5.5 m | |
| Middle deep | 2 m | |
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particularities |
former Liman |
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The Jalpuhsee (more rarely also Jalpuchsee ; Ukrainian Ялпуг / Jalpuh or Ялпух / Jalpuch ) is the largest natural lake in Ukraine with an area of 149 km² near the border with the Republic of Moldova and Romania .
The freshwater lake is located in the Budschak in the southeast of Odessa in the Rajonen Bolhard , Izmail and Reni , 15 kilometers west of the city of Izmail .
The lake is located in an elongated basin and is 39 km long. Its width is about 7 km, the average depth is about 2 m and the maximum depth is 5.5 m. The water temperature is 24 to 25 ° C in summer, in winter the lake freezes and forms an unstable layer of ice.
Waterfront settlements
The town of Bolhrad is located on the north shore of the lake . On the east bank are the villages of Oxamytne , Topolyne , Krynytschne , Kossa , Oserne and Nowa Nekrasiwka . On the west bank are the villages: Vynohradivka , Wladytschen , Kotlowyna , Plawni and, a short distance from the lake, the village of Novosilske .
Inflows and outflows
The Jalpuhsee has two tributaries. On the one hand the 114 km long Jalpuch , which flows into the lake at Bolhrad , which gave the lake its name, and on the other hand the 21 km long Karassulak ( Карасулак ) flowing in from the northeast .
The tributaries of the lake together have a catchment area of 4300 km². This is almost exclusively in the south of Moldova. Since the wastewater treatment is poor there, the lake often exceeds the permissible limit values for pollution.
The Jalpuchsee flows into the lower Danube via the neighboring, 82 km² large Kuhurluj Lake to the south . In the 1970s, the two lakes were separated from each other by a dam with a bridge in the middle, reducing the water exchange between the lakes by almost a third. Over the dam which runs highway M 15 , of Reni leads to Ismail.
Emergence
The Jalpuhsee is actually a Pleistocene Liman in the northern Danube Delta and was separated from the open sea in the Holocene by the deposits of the Danube.
Web links
- Photo gallery of the lake (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Thede Kahl , Michael Metzeltin , Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu : Romania. Volume 2. Historical Regions, LIT-Verlag Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-0069-7
- ^ Botond J. Kiss: The Danube Delta. People, animals, landscapes (PDF; 10.6 MB), Kriterion Verlag, Bucharest, 1988