page_title: Alakol Biosphere Reserve
hierarchical_section_title: Alakol Biosphere Reserve
caption_attribution_description: Русский: озеро Алаколь и Сасыкколь
context_page_description: The Alakol Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve located in Kazakhstan, within the desert zone of Eurasia in the central part of the Alakol inter-mountain depression. The 193,089 hectares reserve lies on the Central Asian–Indian bird migration route. The wetlands of the reserve are of global significance as a habitat and as a nesting site for water birds.
  The Alakol State Nature Reserve manages the area.
context_section_description: The Alakol Biosphere Reserve (established 2013) is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve located in  Kazakhstan, within the desert zone of Eurasia in the central part of the Alakol inter-mountain depression.  The 193,089 hectares (745.52 sq mi) reserve lies on the Central Asian–Indian bird migration route. The wetlands of the reserve are of global significance as a habitat and as a nesting site for water birds.
  The Alakol State Nature Reserve manages the area.
caption: The Alakol-Sasykkol lake system in 2003
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