Ala-Kul

Ala-Köl (Kyrgyz: Ала-Көл, also Алакөл, Russian: Ала-Куль) is a rock-dammed lake in the Terskey Alatau mountain range in the Ak-Suu District of the Issyk-Kul Region in Kyrgyzstan. It lies at an altitude of . It is long and wide. Its area is . History A Russian traveller named Putimtsoff was the first to knowingly visit the lake in 1811. He gave a good description of it, mentioning rocks of different colours in the lake, and the furious winds blowing around the lake. Thirty years later Alexander…