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Kavir National Park is a national park in northern Iran with an area of 4,000 km 2 (1,500 sq mi)located on the western end of the Dasht-e Kavir desert. It encompasses desert and steppe landscapes harbouring native goats (Capra aegagrus), sheep (Ovis orientalis), [2] striped hyenas, Indian wolves, gazelles, Asiatic cheetah and the Persian leopard.
Dasht-e Kavir (Persian: دشت كوير, lit. 'Low Plains' in classical Persian, from khwar (low), and dasht (plain, flatland)) or the Kavir Desert , also known as Kavir-e Namak or the Great Salt Desert , is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian Plateau .
Golestan National Park, Kavir National Park, Turan National Park, and Tandoureh National Park are among the top protected areas. Each of these parks encompasses exceptional and unique varieties of flora and fauna in their wild frontiers.
In Middle Persian (Pahlavi), the word deir, as noted by Shams Gheis-e Razi in the Shams Gheis Dictionary, refers to a gonbad in Persian (or dome in English), built for prayer. The structure was named Deir-e Gachin because it originally featured a dome made of plaster (gach). However, today, no such dome remains in the structure.
In the north of the basin is the large Dasht-e Kavir (a salt desert), in the east and south is the Dasht-e Lut (a sand and gravel desert), and there are portions of the plateau covered in large sand dunes. The average elevation is 900 metres (3,000 ft). [1]
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Eremias kavirensis (commonly known as the Maranjaab racerunner) is a large Eremias lizard known only from Kavir National Park, Iran.It has a snout–vent length of up to 83 millimetres (3.3 in); the background colour of the dorsum is sandy, yellowish-brown, and broken by grey transverse bars that are sometimes bordered with darker brown margins.
Kavir Buzurg, meaning Great Kavir (great salt marsh), is a substantial stretch of salt marshes in the center of the Dasht-e Kavir, which is a desert in the middle of the Iranian plateau. The Kavir Buzurg covers an area of about 320 km (200 mi) by 160 km (99 mi). It is separated from the neighboring kavirs by a surrounding ring of sandy hills. [1]