Azhiadar-Unkur

Azhiadar-Unkur or Ajidaar-Unkyur is a cave near the Dangi Canyon in Aravan, Kyrgyzstan. It consists of a large tunnel which goes more than 120 metres into the limestone mountain and is notable for the fact that it is home to Kyrgyzstan’s only colony of bats.[1] The bat colony consists of Lesser Mouse-Eared Bats and Greater Horseshoe Bats.[2]

Ajidaar-Unkyur
IUCN category III (natural monument or feature)
LocationNookat District, Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan
Established1975

It is a geological protected area (karst cave) located at slopes of Teo-Muyun Mountains in Osh Region of Kyrgyzstan. Two hundred metres from Azhiadar-Unkur, on the same southern slope, is a cavity 60 metres deep and which descends in impressive onyx steps. The cave has two entrances: a natural entrance, in the form of a karst well 20 metres deep, and a manmade one, which provides easy access to the lower, more beautiful section of the cave.

References
  1. "Caves - Kyrgyzstan". www.kyrgyzjer.com.
  2. Ошская область: Энциклопедия [Osh Oblast Encyclopedia] (in Russian). Frunze: Chief Editorial Board of Kyrgyz Soviet Encyclopedia. 1994. p. 445.


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