Paleostomy [1] ( cargo. პალიასტომი [ Paliastomi ]) - a lake in the Colchis Lowland . Located in Georgia, in the regions of Guria and Samegrelo-Upper Svaneti .
| Lake | |
| Paleostomy | |
|---|---|
| cargo. პალიასტომი | |
| Morphometry | |
| Absolute height | 0.3 m |
| Square | 18.2 km² |
| Deepest | 3.2 m |
| Pool | |
| Flowing river | Pichora |
| Location | |
| A country |
|
| Regions | Guria , Samegrelo-Upper Svaneti |
| Municipalities | Lanchkhut Municipality , Khob Municipality |
It is more like an estuary than a lake. It feeds on the river Pichora flowing into it. A channel flows into the Kaparcha River, flowing into the Black Sea . On the shore of the lake is the city of Poti [2] .
The surface area of the lake is 18.2 km². The average depth is 2.6 m, the greatest is 3.2 m. The height above sea level is 0.3 m [3] . Until 1933, a freshwater lake, later an open lagoon with sea-type water, desalinated in floods by river waters.
The lake is located within the borders of the Colchis Reserve .
In 1961, at the bottom of the lake, archaeologists discovered traces of the settlement of the II century BC. e. This area is a possible location of the city of Fasisa [4] .
- In 1963, the director Semyon Dolidze made the film " Lake Paliastomi " [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Geographic Encyclopedic Dictionary: Geographic Names / Ed. A.F. Treshnikov . - 2nd ed., Ext. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1989. - S. 363. - 210 000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-057-6 .
- ↑ Map sheet K-37-72 Poti . Scale: 1: 100,000. State of the terrain for 1986. 1987 edition
- ↑ Abkhazava I., Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia , Volume 7, Art. 652,Tbilisi , 1984.
- ↑ Gamkrelidze G.A. Moscow Underwater Archaeological Club. Date of treatment November 18, 2008. Archived March 16, 2012.
- ↑ " Paliastomi Lake ” on the Internet Movie Database
Links
- Paleostomy // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
- Underwater archeology in Lake Paleostomy