Nature - the wonderful creator.She often creates stunning beauty of the landscapes.Koyashskoe lake Crimean natural miracle plays incredible color palette of the water.Fantastic lake has several unique factors at once.It is the salt on the Crimean peninsula (the concentration of salt in its water 350 g / l).In ancient times, the popular mineral mined here.The lake is rich in healing mud.
Its waters, depending on the season change color.With the onset of summer water table plays a rich, colorful hues, from pale pink to intense red and bright orange.Richly colored waters of the lake contrasted with white and blue of the coast of the Black Sea, separate from the ordinary pond hundred meter strip that stretches three kilometers - Koyashskoy spit.Picturesque Koyashskoe saltwater lake in Crimea on a background of sea and scorched steppe creates a fantastic image.
Location Koyashskogo lake
on the Kerch Peninsula, between Feodosia and Kerch, near the villages and Marevka Yakovenkova sprawled Koyashskoe lake.Unique body of water is included in the territory of the reserve Opuksky stretching on the outskirts of Kerch.Pink lake extends over part of the dry steppes and tatty Cimmeria, land and air are saturated with salts.
Once this picturesque lagoon was part of the Black Sea.Sea surf rolling on the land for two thousand year, has formed a unique bay, separating it from the main area of the narrow strip of land.
Why Koyashskoe Lake pink-red?
Pink red and orange shades of the lake give it living microscopic algae, rich pigment corresponding to the color gamut.The characteristic color of the water still give residents an extraordinary reservoir - crustaceans Artemia.Algae that produce beta-carotene, not only stained water and salt crystals, they give them a delicate aroma of violets.
The sun beats down mercilessly, the Amazing looking lake.During the summer baked color of the water becomes more intense.With the evaporation of salt water dries up.Its crystals are deposited on the surface of rocks, towering above the mirror pond.Crystallization is so fleeting that the boulders immediately converted into the salt of the iceberg.The edges of the lake twitch snow-white edge, which is gradually expanding, captures the entire surface of the pond.
water receding from the coast in the summer heat, the landscape turns into a fantastic spectacle.Coast pink pond becomes pure white from the salt crystallized.During this period Koyashskoe Lake (Crimea) resembles the Martian landscape.A salt crystals are carried by wind for Cimmerian steppe.Overly salted and parched steppe land becomes almost lifeless, unsuitable for cultivation.
Only spring until mid-April, around the expanses of pink pond veiled delicate greens.In this tiny period while the salinity in the lagoon is not increased too, over the green carpet of blooming wildflowers and wild tulips and waterfowl nesting satisfied.A little more, and the aqueous medium is too aggressive to their normal life.
Description Lake
Koyashskoe picturesque salt lake, formed in place of the extinct volcano of mud, small.The pond covers an area of 500 hectares.In length it extends over four and a maximum width - for a little over two kilometers.The depth of the lake rose, you could say, is negligible, it is hardly live up to one meter.
salt lake is incredibly high - 350 ppm (in one liter of water dissolve 350 g of salt).It represents a huge chemical laboratory, created by nature.Here, in a pond with aggressive media, if tested for survival microorganisms, plants and animals.For life on the lake have adapted different types of waders.For example, avocet, having chosen Koyashskoe lake in the spring, live it up to the beginning of autumn.
healing mud
Salt pond Koyashskoe lake - an excellent source of healing.Its basin centered healing mud and brine, endowed with healing power.By the curative properties of the mud are not inferior Saka mud sediments.The bottom of the lake of mud littered securities in the amount of 1.7 mln. M3.
along the coast, which is in the midst of the summer turns into a salt desert, travelers wander gently to the water.Otherwise it is impossible, because the basin of the reservoir - not that other, as a hushed mud volcano.Under the salt deposited a thick layer of mud, in other places not only tough, but also unsteady.
Features lake
Pond is famous as the natural and cultural-historical treasures.In antiquity the city was located here Cimmeric so many artifacts Koyashskoe surrounds the lake.Crimea in this place is dotted with ancient citadel, the defensive walls, altars and shrines.In addition, there remain old wells and aqueducts.
