Kyrgyz Ala-Too Range

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The Kyrgyz Mountains ( also Kyrgyz Alatau called; Kyrgyz Кыргыз Ала - Тоосу ) is one to 4895.4 m high mountains in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan (Central Asia ).

The mountain, which is the western part of the Tian Hans, located in the north west and north of Kyrgyzstan and south-east of Kazakhstan. It extends in a west-east direction to about 375 km in length. To the northwest, the Kyrgyz mountains falls from the desert Mujunkum, north to the wide valley of the Tschüi where Bishkek is located. In the northeast of the Transili Alatau and east of the Kungej Alatau and the Issyk Kul Lake joins; these two mountains and a lake are also beyond the valley of the Tschüi, the coming cuts here from the south to the mountain landscape. To the south closes beyond the valley of the Talas Talas Alatau and to the west across the same river of Qaratau.

The highest mountain in the Kyrgyz Mountains, where is located including the Ala- Archa National Park, is the 4895.4 -meter-high Spades Semyonova Tienshanskogo, named after the Russian geographer and Central Asia researcher Pyotr Petrovich Semenov - Tyan- Shansky, south of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek.