Khaqmar

The Sakmara rises in the southern Ural Mountains and winds south through a valley cut among the hills. Near Kuvandyk it turns west, then bends south again to meet the Ural River. The Salmysh and the Bolshoy Ik join it from the north. Its course links the wooded valleys and rocky uplands of the southern Urals with the open steppe through which the Ural flows towards the Caspian.