Toratau

Toratau (Bashkir: Торатау — «fortress mountain») - one of the four shihans, located in Ishimbaysky District, on the border with the city Sterlitamak. The remainder of the reef, the Lower Permian (Late Paleozoic) reef massif, formed over 230 million years ago in the tropical sea.

Toratau
Geography
LocationIshimbaysky District, Bashkortostan,
Russia
Parent rangeSouthern Ural

This is natural monument may be destructed with The Bashkir soda company and Russian authorities.[1][2]

Physiographic characteristic

Length - 1 km, width 850 m, height - above the Belaya River- 220 m, above the soil level - 200 m, the absolute height above the sea level - 338 m.

Has a conical shape. Slopes - 20-30 degrees, but do not form rocky ledges. The lower part is covered with screes. At the base of the northern slope of the mountain there are springs, one with sulphurous water.

At the foot of Yuraktau is located the lake Moksha.

References
  1. Denis Manturov publicly supported the BSK in the development of Bashkir Shihans (In Russian)


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