# Karagiye

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{{Short description|Karst trench in Kazakhstan}}
{{Infobox valley
| name = Qaraqia oiysy
| other_name = Karagiye Mountain Trench,<ref name="KTLOW"/><br /> Karagiye Depression
| photo =View_of_Karagiye_Depression.JPG
| photo_width =250
| photo_caption =View of Karagiye Depression
| photo_alt = Karagiye Depression.JPG
| map = Kazakhstan
| map_width = 250
| map_alt =
| map_caption = Karagiye within Kazakhstan
| label = Karagiye
| label_position =
| coordinates = {{coord|43|24|0|N|51|47|24|E|type:landmark|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_ref =
| location = [Mangyshlak Peninsula](/source/Mangyshlak_Peninsula), Kazakhstan
| elevation = -134 m| elevation_m = | elevation_ft =
| elevation_ref =
| direction =
| length = 40 km<ref name="KTLOW"/>
| width = 10 km<ref name="KTLOW"/>
| area =
| depth =
| type = [Karst](/source/Karst)
| age =
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}}

'''Karagiye''' ({{langx|kk|Qaraqia}}; {{lit.}} "Black Jaw")<ref name="KTLOW"/> is a {{convert|40|km}}-long [karst](/source/karst) [trench](/source/trench) close to the [Caspian Sea](/source/Caspian_Sea). At its lowest point at Vpadina Kaundy, it is approximately {{convert|134|m}} below [sea level](/source/sea_level).<ref>{{cite book|first1=Timothy L.|last1=Gall|first2=Jeneen M.|last2=Hobby|title=Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations: Asia & Oceania|url=https://archive.org/details/worldmarkencycl000timo|url-access=registration|quote=%22Vpadina Kaundy%22.|publisher=[Thomson Gale](/source/Thomson_Gale)|date=2007|isbn=978-1-4144-1093-7|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> It is the lowest point in [Central Asia](/source/Central_Asia), [Kazakhstan](/source/Kazakhstan), and the [former Soviet Union](/source/Post-Soviet_states). It is also known as the '''Karagiye Depression''' and '''Karagiye Mountain Trench'''.<ref name="KTLOW">{{cite book |title=KAZAKHSTAN THE LAND OF WONDERS |last= |first= |author-link= |year=2009 |publisher=BW-KZ |location=Almaty |isbn= |page= |pages= |url= }}</ref>

The trench was formed as soluble [limestone](/source/limestone), [dolomite](/source/Dolomite_(rock)) and [gypsum](/source/gypsum) dissolved forming [pothole](/source/pothole)s, funnels and caves that eventually collapsed. Today the trench features many [scarps](/source/scarp_face) and offsets and generates long rain clouds caused by the air rising above it.<ref name="KTLOW"/> There is a [vernal lake](/source/vernal_pool) in the south-west of the trench and a stream rising from a drilled well that disappears back into the ground within the trench.<ref name="KTLOW"/>

The trench is inhabited by [mouflon](/source/mouflon), [corsac](/source/corsac_fox), [snake](/source/snake)s, [hares](/source/hares) and [vulture](/source/vulture)s. It is the only place within the [Mangyshlak Peninsula](/source/Mangyshlak_Peninsula) where mushrooms grow and these are collected by locals.<ref name="KTLOW"/>

==See also==
*[Karakiya District](/source/Karakiya_District)
*[Caspian Depression](/source/Caspian_Depression)
*[List of countries by lowest point](/source/List_of_countries_by_lowest_point)
*[List of places on land with elevations below sea level](/source/List_of_places_on_land_with_elevations_below_sea_level)

==References==
{{Commons category|Karagiye}}
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{{Deserts}}

Category:Deserts of Central Asia
Category:Deserts of Kazakhstan
Category:Depressions of Kazakhstan
Category:Lowest points of countries
Category:Karst
Category:Landforms of Europe
Category:Landforms of Asia

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