Tuzly_Lagoons

Tuzly Lagoons

Tuzly Lagoons

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Tuzly Lagoons (Ukrainian: Тузловські лимани, Romanian: Limanele Tuzlei) are a group of marine lagoons (limans) in southern Bessarabia (Budjak), Ukraine. The lagoons are part of the Tuzly Lagoons National Nature Park, proclaimed on January 1, 2010.[2] The name of the lagoons originates from the Turkish: Tuzlu, which means salty.

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The group includes three main lagoons: Shahany, Alibey, and Burnas, and also smaller lagoons: Solone Ozero, Khadzhyder, Karachaus, Budury, Kurudiol, Martaza, Mahala, Malyi Sasyk, and Dzhantshey.[3]

The total area of the lagoons is 206 km2, depth 1.6–2.5 m, averaging 1.0–1.3 m. The lagoons are separated from the Black Sea by a 29-km long sandbar, which is 60–400 m wide and 1–3 m high.[4]

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  1. [1]
    "Shagany-Alibei-Burnas Lakes System". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  2. [2]
    "President of Ukraine's decree № 1/2010 for the creation of the Tuzly Limans national nature park" Archived 2011-08-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian)
  3. [3]
    "Pearls of the Black Sea" (in Ukrainian)
  4. [4]
    Starushenko L.I., Bushuyev S.G. (2001) Prichernomorskiye limany Odeschiny i ih rybohoziaystvennoye znacheniye. Astroprint, Odesa, 151 pp. (in Russian)


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