Kaskelen gorge
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The Kaskelen gorge or Kaskelenskoye gorge is the gorge of the Kaskelen river, a protected natural monument in the mountains of the Ile-Alatau National Park, Kazakhstan.
Description
The most powerful impulse of mountain-forming processes in this area was marked at the beginning of the anthropogenic period (about a million years ago). At this time, the formation of the relief of the Trans-ili Alatau continued, which explains the appearance of the Kaskelen gorge in Kazakhstan. To the West of Almaty, the Kaskelen gorge is quiet and calm in the mountains.
Flora
On both sides of the road there are gardens, but in the floodplain most often grow elm trees, single poplars, occasionally seen trees of wild apple, apricot, and maple Semyonov. Birch groves stretch for hundreds of hectares. Attention is drawn to the abundance of spruce young trees. There is a very rare spruce undergrowth throughout the Tien Shan, and in the Kaskelen gorge it is dense and numerous. There are also spruce young trees of 30–50 years of age. Kaskelen gorge had been a more rocky, the soil shallow, the conditions for competing with the spruce herbs are less favorable. Spruce is renewed and grows on shallow stony soils.
Tourism
The attraction of the Kaskelen gorge is a large stone yurt, in Kazakh Uy-tas, which is located on the very crest of the side ridge, above the nursery, South-East of the road. The height of the stone Yurt is about 5 meters, the diameter is 6 meters, and the weight is more than 500 tons.
Relief
Beyond the Kaskelen gorge, the Trans-ili Alatau continues West for another hundred kilometers, but the mountains become lower and the climate drier. There are no forests, no eternal snows, no glaciers. Typical semi-desert landscape of foothills and meadow-steppe-in the mountains.
Protection of the monument
The natural monument is included in a specially protected natural area with the status of a nature conservation and scientific institution. Protection of the object is assigned to the administration of the Ile-Alatau National Park. It has a favorable acoustic environment (silence, melodic sounds in nature). Recommended visiting periods: all year round. Inspection of the gorge is effective at any time of the day, including at night.
Sources
- M. Zh. Zhandaev Nature Of The TRANS-Ili Alatau. ed. «Kazakhstan».- Alma-ATA, 1978
- V. N. Vukolov On the Northern Tien Shan. Ed. "Profizdat" M:, 1991
- A. P. Gorbunov Mountains Of Central Asia. Explanatory dictionary of geographical names and terms. Almaty, 2006
External links
- Ile-Alatau state national park
- UNESCO World Heritage Convention: Northern Tyan-Shan (Ile-Alatau State National Park)