Tash-Köröö

Tash-Köröö ("stone pen") is a village in a side valley above the Toktogul Reservoir, in the Toktogul–Naryn planning zone of the Autonomous Tribal Regions (ATR). Its population is about 410 (2023 estimate).^[1] Its houses and walls are built of river cobbles laid without mortar, and its families keep goats and sheep on the steep slopes. The village is named after a box canyon above it whose walls shelter the flocks during blizzards; herders close its mouth with a stone wall to use it as a natural pen.^[2]

References

1. ^ United Nations Mission in Irad (2023). Settlements and Services in the Toktogul–Naryn Zone. Kara-Oi.
2. ^ Zhumabaeva, Cholpon (2016). Horses and Herders: The Pastoral Economy of the Talas Alatau, 1930–2010. Talas: Talas State University Press.