Republic of Altaï

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The Republic of Altaï (Russian: Респу́бликаАлта́й) is a federal prone of the Fédération of Russia (a republic).

The republic of Altaï is a mountainous territory with the picturesque landscapes, a kind of “Russian Tibet” located at the center of Eurasia to the junction of various States, ecosystems and cultures. The capital of the republic is Gorno-Altaïsk, it is to approximately 100 km in the South of Biysk on the Transsibérien.

It is old Haut-Altaï.

Geography

The republic is located at the center even Asia with the junction of the Siberian Taïga, with the steppes of Kazakhstan and the desert of the Mongolia. The forests cover approximately 25% of the territory of the republic.

Surface : 92,600 km ²
Borders :

intern : Oblast de Kemerovo (NR), Republic of Khakassie (), Republic of Touva (E), and Krai of Altaï (O/NO).
international : Mongolia (SE), China (S), and Kazakhstan (S/SO)

the highest point : Mount Béloukha (4,506 m)
Maximum N->S outdistances : 360 km
Maximum E->O outdistances : 380 km

Average rise : No dated

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Rivers and lakes

More than 20.000 tributaries extend in all the mountainous Republic, compensating for a total of more than 60.000 kilometers of value of the water ways. The largest rivers of the Republic are the Katun and the Biya, which come from the mountains and run in north. The junction of the two rivers forms thereafter the river of Ob, one of the longest rivers in Siberia, which runs in north in the Arctic Ocean.

The source of the river of Biya of black is the Lac Teletskoye, more the big lake of the area located in a remote south of insulation of sector in the mountains. The emerald-coloured river of Katun has its source with the glacier of Gebler, which is located on the highest point of the Republic, Bâti Belukha. The river of Katun holds in particular a religious significance for indigenous Altaians, as well as for much of Russians that of phase in the sector, as built Belukha is known in the folklore of Altai to be the passage to mystical Shambhala.

The hydrographic network of the Republic includes 7.000 lakes also roughly, being added to an entire surface of more than 700 km ². More the big lake is the lake Teletskoye, which 80 kilometers length has, 5 kilometers broad, a surface of 230.8 km ², and a maximum depth of 325 Mr. the lakes of mountain of Altai contain enormous water reserves soft of a very pure quality because of their distance from the majority of the human activities. The lake Teletskoye contains more than 40 km ³ of strongly pure water.

The potential storage of subterranean water is evaluated to 22 million m ³ per day, whereas the current use constitutes approximately 44.000 m ³ per day.

Subdivisions of the Republic of Altaï

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