Namakab Rud

Namakab Rud

نمكاب‌رود
Namakab Rud نمكاب‌رود
Town
	Namakab Rud
	Coordinates: 36°41′52″N 51°16′48″E / 36.69778°N 51.28000°E
Country	Iran
Province	Mazandaran
County	Chalus
Bakhsh	Central
Rural District	Kelarestaq-e Gharbi
Population (2006)
• Total	354
Time zone	UTC+3:30 (IRST)
Website	https://www.namakabrud.ir

Namakâb Rud (Persian: شهرك نمکاب‌رود, also Romanized as Shahrak-e Namakâb Rud; also known as Namak Âbrud, Namakâbrud, Namakâbrud Sar, and Nur Sar)^[1] is a town in Kelarestaq-e Gharbi Rural District, in the Central District of Chalus County, Mazandaran Province, Iran.

Geography and Divisions

Located 12 km from East Chalus is new Namakabrud township covering some 650 hectares, with the Caspian sea on its north and hyrcanius Meduben on its south.

The town is divided into a tourist and a residential section. The residential part consists of 8 neighborhoods and is designed for a tourist population of up to 100,000 people, and the entrance roads of residential neighborhoods are separated from other parts of the town. The tourism sector has many recreational facilities, such as Namakabrud amusement park, Namakabrud telecabin lines 1 and 2, sledding, ziplines, ATV karting, adventure park, shooting club, etc.^{[citation needed]}

There are numerous villa cities around it which form a vacation region for the people of Tehran and Karaj.^{[citation needed]}

Population

At the 2006 census, its population was 354, consisting of 71 families.^[2] Decreased to 83 people and 25 households in 2016 census.^[3]

Climate

Namakab Rud has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa, Trewartha: Cf), with warm, humid summers and cool, damp winters.

Gondola lift

Namakab Rud is a tourist town and has an aerial tramway which starts at the sea level near the shores of the Caspian Sea and ends on the top of the Alborz mountains heights crossing dense forest area of Northern Iran.^[4]

References

↑ Shahrak-e Namak Abrud at GEOnet Names Server
↑ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 2011-09-20.
↑ Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): Mazandaran Province. amar.org.ir (Report) (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original (Excel) on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
↑ "Namak Abrud Telecabin". ToIran.

External links

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[1] Shahrak-e Namak Abrud at GEOnet Names Server

[2] "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 2011-09-20.

[2016_Mazandaran_Province-3] Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): Mazandaran Province. amar.org.ir (Report) (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original (Excel) on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

[:0-4] "Namak Abrud Telecabin". ToIran.

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