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The Shoor River, the only permanent river that flows in the heart of the Lut Desert, is full of water all year round, and originates from the northwestern mountains of Birjand.This massive land covers an area of 51,800 km² and is surrounded by mountains, making it one of the driest and hottest lands on Earth. This plain with more than 40000 square kilometers area (contains both arena and. Plains of pitted basaltic lava (called Gandom Beryan) that are another of the beauties of the Dasht-e Lute In Persian, the word ‘lut’ means an area without any water or vegetation. Lut plains or Lut desert is the wilderness plain in the southeast of Iran.Extensive sand and gravel zones with colors ranging along a spectrum of light brown to grey and black (called the gorge of gunpowder because the soil is black and looks like gunpowder).The largest sand pyramids in the world with a height of 480 meters.The largest rock city in the world that looks like a fictional town or the city of Lut.At the foothills facing the Lut Desert, there are relics of human settlements from the fourth millennium B.C.ĭasht-e Lut is geographically divided into three parts:ĭasht-e Lut is a natural exhibition of the most wonderful desert topographical features some of which are as follows: The Lut Desert catchment area is about 175 thousand square kilometers (one tenth of the total area of the country) and is 900 kilometers from north to south and about 300 kilometers from west to east. It lies between two faults: the Nehbandan Fault on the east and the Nayband Fault on the west. It was inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list on July 17, 2016. The surface of the sand there has been measured at temperatures as high as 70 ☌ (159 ☏), and it is one of the world's driest and hottest places.
