Uzboy

The Uzboy is an ancient channel winding through the desert between the Sarygamysh depression and the Caspian Sea. Its broad, dry bed preserves the shape of a river even where no continuous stream remains. Water reaching Sarygamysh from branches of the Oxus changed with the river's course and the use of its waters, and the channel carried water at some periods of its long history. Separate pools and lakes remain in parts of the old channel, amid the sands and barren plateau.