Kök-Oi

Kök-Oi ("green hollow") is a village in the Talas District of the Irad Special Economic Zone (ISEZ), at the mouth of the Besh-Tash valley about 20 kilometers south of Talas. Its population was 1,610 (2018 census).^[1] The Besh-Tash Ranger Headquarters stands at the edge of the village, and several rangers and pack guides of Besh-Tash National Park live there. Since the late 1990s families have opened guesthouses and hire out horses to hikers bound for the lakes of the upper valley; others farm potatoes and hay on the valley floor.^[2]

References

1. ^ ISEZ Statistical Office (2019). 2018 Census of Population: Settlements of the Districts. Talas.
2. ^ Talas State University, Faculty of Geography (2018). Physical Geography of Irad. Talas: Talas State University Press, pp. 152–170.