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The Caspian Sea and Karakum Desert.
The main section of the Karakum Canal was constructed between 1954 and 1967. This waterway, which skirts the Karakum Desert, spans approximately 840 km (520 miles) from the Amu Darya to Gökdepe, located west of Ashgabat.1