Karasu-Aras Mountains

The Karasu-Aras Mountains stretch eastward across the Armenian Highlands from the Erzurum country towards the lands west of Mount Ararat. Their ridges divide a high landscape of basins and valleys, with the country of Doğubayazıt to the south and Iğdır to the north. Mountain steppe, woodland and alpine vegetation occupy different elevations of the surrounding plateau. Across this high country the rivers of the upper Euphrates and the Aras run towards distant seas on opposite sides of the watershed.