Keywords: Vordan Karmir Habitat.jpg Armenian cochineal or vordan karmir 2014-10-16 own based on a U S National Aeronautics and Space Administration image uploaded to Wikimedia Commons Ketone16 based on a photo taken by the crew of Expedition 28 of the International Space Station Based on an image from the U S Government National Aeronautics and Space Administration and thus in the public domain other versions 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 cc-zero PD-USGov-NASA Uploaded with UploadWizard Porphyrophora hamelii Vordan Karmir Insects of Armenia |