Lake Jama

Jama is one of the salt lakes of relic origin, which arose on the site of the ancient strait between the Black and Caspian Seas. The lake is located on the territory of the Republic of Kalmykia, in the Yashalta district. Eight kilometers west of the lake is the village of Salt. Jama has an elongated shape, the length of the lake is 4.9 kilometers, the width is about a kilometer.

The reservoir belongs to the Manych group of relict lakes. It includes the famous healing mud Big Yashalta (Salt) Lake, Manych-Gudilo, Lebyazhye, Bloopy, small Yashalta, Tsaryk and several others. Located in the Manych depression lakes are the remains of the ancient strait. By early autumn, Jama is fading or almost drying out. The lake is fed by surface and groundwater. Adherents of mud treatment consider the deposits of the lake as curative, considering Jama one of the deposits of local healing mud.