Kishi Koskopa
Kishi Koskopa is a salt lake in Nauyrzym District, Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan.
The lake is located to the southwest of Mereke. The area is quite desolate, with few settlements.
The name Koskopa in the Kazakh language means "Double Kopa" —"Kopa" referring to a lake that seasonally becomes a salt marsh overgrown with reeds and sedges.
Geography
Kishi Koskopa is an exorheic lake of the Turgay Depression and is part of the Sarykopa lake basin. River Saryozen flows to the southeast. The lake lies at an elevation of. Kishi Koskopa is joined in the north by a short wide sound with twin lake Ulken Koskopa. A small right tributary of the Saryozen flows out from the southwestern shore. The bottom of the lake is muddy.Kishi Koskopa has a roughly round shape, with a diameter of approximately. Its northern neighbor is about as large. Lake Kiikkol lies to the north, and Sarykopa to the southwest. The Koskopa lakes freeze at the end of November and thaw by the end of March. Both lakes usually dry in the summer, becoming salt marshes.