Bayan-Aul State National Park.
Kazakhstan Nature National Parks. Kazakhstan recreation zones

Pavlodar Oblast, is famous for its magnificent Bayan-Aul National Natural Park - one of the most picturesque places of the country.

The SNNP (State National Nature Park) "Bayan-Aul" has been formed in 1985 to preserve and recreate flora and fauna of Bayan-Aul mountain range. The SNNP "Bayan-Aul" is situated in Pavlodar region and covers 50.000 hectares.

Bayan-Aul locates within Kazakh mounds (Bayan-Aul mountains), which formed as a large mountain land during early Paleozoic, has a long history of continental destruction; and nowadays it has rather not so large heights (400-1027 meters above the sea level).

There are three large fresh water Lakes on the Bayan-Aul territory - Sabyndykol, Zhasybai and Toraigyr. Except them there are several small lakes, which in drought season grow shallow (Kochet lake and other).

The depth of Sabyndykol Lake is 10-13 meters, Zhasybai Lake - 7 meters. Lakes' coasts are very picturesque.

Bayan-Aul mountains is situated in the center of Central Asia continent, that is why they've climate of continental type. The average annual temperature is 32C, in January - -13.7 C, minimum - -17.8 C. The average temperature in July is 14.6 C, maximum - 32.6 C. Average period with unfrosted weather is only 140 days. The average annual wind speed in Bayan-Aul is 2.9 m/sec.

Floral variety in Bayan-Aul national park is about 460 types.

This National Park represents four kinds of vegetation - forest, forest-steppe, steppe and meadow. In the south-western parts of Pavlodar, on the right bank of the Irtish, there is a unique place on our planet - natural site called the Goose Migration.

Palaeontologists found remnants of giraffe, rhinoceros, hyena like animals and hipparirion (a small horse), living here 7-10 million years ago.

The total amount of the found fossils is considerable. They, as it seems, belong to thousands of species.

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