The Ayagöz ( Kazakh : Аягөз ) also spelled Ayaguz and Ayaköz , is a river of the Balkhash-Alakol Basin , Kazakhstan .
6-483: The Ayagöz is fed by snowmelt from the Tarbagatai Mountains and is used for irrigation, flowing into the eastern end of Lake Balkash , although there is no longer much flow from the river into the lake. The city of Ayagöz is located on its banks. The river is 492 kilometres (306 mi) long and has a basin area of 15,700 square kilometres (6,100 sq mi). In 1717, Kaip Khan and Abul Khayr attacked
12-529: A fishing station could be established. He left Ayagöz and descended the river Ayagöz taking soundings, and fishing. He found two types of fish: marena and sudak , although not in large numbers, in the brackish water. The Kuzu Kerbetch tomb was found nearby and was said to be significant to the Kyrgyz population. Kuzu-Kerpetch was a Kyrgyz chief known from folk songs for valor and his love for Baian Sulu (who eventually caused his death) The river's reedy lower section
18-875: Is more precipitation in the Tarbagatai mountains than in the adjacent flatlands. The mountains are thus an important watershed. Streams from the northern slopes of the Tarbagatai flow into Lake Zaysan , which eventually drains (via the Irtysh ) into the Arctic Ocean . The streams of the southern slope, many of which merge into the Emil River , flow into the Emin Valley , part of the endorheic Balkhash-Alakol Basin ; they are an important source of water for several counties of Tacheng (Tarbagatay) Prefecture in China. The Urzhar has its sources in
24-640: The China–Kazakhstan border , located in northwestern Xinjiang , China , and the Abai Region of East Kazakhstan . The name of the mountain derived from the Mongolian word tarvaga , meaning " marmot ", with the suffix -tai , literally "to have" or "with". Tarbagan marmots live in this mountain range. An eastern extension of the Tarbagatai is the Saur Mountains . As is common for mountain ranges, there
30-687: The Dzungar Khanate but were defeated on the River Ayagöz. Various Russian explorations took place in the area in the first half of the 19th century. Federoff explored the area in 1834. Between 1837 and 1843 the trans-Irtysh steppe as far as the Ayagöz River and Chu River was mapped on a scale of five versts to the inch. The shores of Lake Balkash were also surveyed and explored. Prince Gortchakoff, governor of Western Siberia , sent an officer named Assanoff in 1839 with some men to Lake Balkash to see if
36-578: Was once tiger habitat. The river turned up an Ordovician trilobite fossil, an Agerina acutilimbata (see list of trilobite genera ), found by Ghobadi Pour et al. in 2011 in Katian , Karagech Formation on the east side of the Ajaguz River 7 kilometres (4 mi) north of Akchii village in the Tarbagatai Range . Tarbagatai Mountains The Tarbagatai Mountains are a mountain range straddling
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