Hāmūn-e Jaz Mūrīān

Hamun-e Jaz Murian occupies a closed basin in southeastern Iran, between the highlands of Kerman and Baluchistan. The Halil Rud enters from the west and the Bampur from the east. After rain in the surrounding mountains, their waters can spread across the shallow depression; in drier periods the basin contracts into marsh and exposed ground. Its changing shores lie between the irrigated river valleys and the arid country beyond.