Mount Kapaz

The Mount Kapaz or Kepez is a mountain in Lesser Caucasus near Ganja city in central Azerbaijan. Kapaz rises 3,065 meters above the sea level. It is located next to Lake Göygöl and its huge rocks broke off the mount and blocked a nearby river during the 1139 Ganja earthquake; creating the lake. In the Middle Ages, the mount was also called "Alparak", a name borrowed from Alparak lake translated from ancient Turkic languages as "the place covered by dam" referring to the big rocks which blocked the Agsu river and creating a lake. ()