Mount Kapaz
The Mount Kapaz or Kepez is a mountain in Lesser Caucasus near Ganja city in central Azerbaijan. Kapaz rises 3,065 meters above the sea level. It is located next to Lake Göygöl and its huge rocks broke off the mount and blocked a nearby river during the 1139 Ganja earthquake; creating the lake.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Vahe Martirosyan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 3,066 metres
- Description: mountain in Azerbaijan
- Also known as: “Gora Kepaz” and “Gora Kyapaz”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Göygöl National Park.
Göygöl National Park
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Göygöl National Park — is a national park of Azerbaijan. It was established in an area in Goygol Rayon administrative district on April 1, 2008, on the basis of the former "Goy Gol State Reserve" that was established in 1925 and which it superseded, on a surface area of 12,755 hectares.
Mount Kapaz
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Goygol District, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Kapaz from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Mount Kapaz” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل كاباز”
- Armenian: “K’yap’az Lerr”
- Armenian: “Ալհարակ”
- Armenian: “Քյափազ Լեռ”
- Armenian: “Քյափազ”
- Azerbaijani: “Kəpəz (dağ)”
- Azerbaijani: “Kəpəz dağı”
- Azerbaijani: “Kəpəz Dağı”
- Cebuano: “Gora Kyapaz”
- Dutch: “Gora Kyapaz”
- Dutch: “Kapaz”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت كاپاز”
- French: “mont Kapaz”
- French: “Mont Kapaz”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Kapaz”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Kapaz”
- Ladin: “Mont Kapaz”
- Persian: “کوه کپز”
- Russian: “Кяпаз”
- Swedish: “Gora Kyapaz”
- Turkish: “Kepez Dağı”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Xanbulaq and Kecəldağ.
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