Tuzkan Lake

Tuzkan is a shallow salt lake in a closed depression north of the Nuratau mountains, at the edge of the Kyzylkum. Its water rises with seasonal rain and runoff and can shrink or disappear in dry weather, leaving a salty bed. The name recalls the salt gathered from the basin. Around it lie salt marshes and open desert, a landscape of intermittent water between the mountain foothills and the broad plains toward the Syr Darya.