page_title: Ararat, Armenia
section_title: Geography and climate
hierarchical_section_title: Ararat, Armenia / Geography and climate
caption_attribution_description: Հայերեն: Ուրծի լեռներ This is a photo of a natural site in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh identified by the ID AR-SS001
context_page_description: Ararat is a town and urban municipal community in the Ararat Province of Armenia, located on the Yerevan-Nakhchivan highway, 42 km southeast of the capital Yerevan and 19 km south of the provincial centre Artashat. In the 2011 census, the population of the town was 20,235. As per the 2016 official estimate, the population is around 20,300.
context_section_description: Ararat is situated at the east of the central part of modern-day Armenia, occupying the southeastern part of the Ararat plain, only 7 km east of Araks river on the Armenia-Turkey border. Historically, the current territory of the town was part of the Vostan Hayots canton of Ayrarat province of Ancient Armenia.
  At an approximate height of 825 meters above sea level, the town is surrounded by the villages of Avshar at the northwest, and Ararat at the west and the south. The Goravan Sands Sanctuary is located at the northeast of the town, while the mountains of Urts dominate over the town from the east and the north.
  The town is generally characterized with an extremely arid climate, with low precipitation levels. Winters are cold and snowy, with temperature degrees ranging between -15 and -30 °C. Summers are long and hot.
  However, the ecology of the town is in danger due to emissions of cement dust and cyanide from the gold manufacturing plant. In summer 2005, the impurity of the atmosphere was recorded to be 9.6 times the acceptable norm.
caption: The mountains of Urts at the north and east of Ararat
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