Description: English: Annotated satellite image of part of the historic habitat of the insect Porphyrophora hamelii (
Armenian cochineal or vordan karmir). Date: 16 October 2014. Source: Own work (based on a U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration image uploaded to Wikimedia Commons). Author:
Ketone16 (based on a photo taken by the crew of Expedition 28 of the International Space Station). Permission(
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File:Aras_River,_Turkey-Armenia-Iran_Border_Region.JPG (original image without annotations). The image shows part of the historic habitat of
Porphyrophora hamelii within the
Ararat Plain and
Aras (Araks) River Valley northeast of
Mount Ararat. The red (crimson) area marked with a gold border is the major portion of the
Vordan Karmir State Reservation near the village of
Arazap in
Armenia, a national sanctuary for the insects and
salt marsh vegetation. A disjoint portion of the reservation at the village of
Jrarat, which makes up 9.8% of the reservation by area, is not depicted. The purple annotations denote the historic vordan karmir-producing cities of
Artashat and
Dvin. The dots show the location of the archaeological sites of the historic cities, not the location of the modern cities. The twin peaks of
Mount Ararat are marked with orange text, and the Aras (Araks) River, which spans the entire image from left to right, is marked in blue text. Several of the modern major cities in the area are also marked (in gray):
Yerevan,
Vagharshapat, and
Armavir in Armenia; and
Iğdır and
Doğubayazıt in
Turkey. The
Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant is marked in brown. Licensing[
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