Barchan Sarykum. DJI Phantom 4, model created in NextGIS by order of Daghestan State Nature Reserve.
Barchan Sarykum is located 18 km to the northwest of Makhachkala, at the base of the northern slopes of the Narath-Tyube Ridge, on the left bank of the Shura-Ozen River.
The highest point of the barchan reaches the absolute altitude of 262 metres. The protected area and adjacent territories are represented by arid lands at the border of lowlands and front mountain ridges of Daghestan. A big wind-blown sand massif with trees and shrubs at its foot, the river valley with meadow vegetation and sparse stripes of floodplain tree-shrub vegetation, rocky dry mountain slopes with xerophilous shrubs, the clay hilly plain with wormwood-grassy vegetation at the foothills, fescue-feather grass steppes on plakors and gentle mountain slopes, the sandy steppe overgrown with shrubs at the foot of the barchan, shibliak thickets on slopes of the Narat-Tyube Ridge
2 comments