Orta-Kuyu

Orta-Kuyu is a group of wells on the desert route along the old Uzboy channel. A caravan stopping place stood near the wells on the road between Khwarazm and Iran, one of a sequence of stations described by the fourteenth-century geographer Hamdallah Mustawfi. The dry riverbed and scattered water sources made a distinctive corridor through the sands. Travellers crossing this country depended on such wells and resting places between the distant settled oases.