🦎 Basut-Chay State Reserve

Azerbaijan · Europe · Nature Reserve · 39.05°N, 46.60°E

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Basut-Chay State Reserve or Besitchay State Reserve is a protected area of Azerbaijan, near the border with Armenia. It was established as a 107 hectare reserve in 1974 for preserving and protecting the rare Oriental plane tree. The area of the reserve was slightly reduced by 10 hectares in October 1980. The reserve covers the area around the Besitchay of the southeastern part of Minor Caucasus.

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Quick facts

CountryAzerbaijan
Continent / regionEurope
Protection type🦎 Nature Reserve
Coordinates (approx.)39.05°N, 46.60°E · view on map

Basut-Chay State Reserve is a nature reserve in Azerbaijan, in Europe. The details of why Basut-Chay State Reserve is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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Coordinates are an approximate area centre. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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