Kosva

Also known as Kosva River

The Kosva () is a river in Perm Krai and Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, a left tributary of the Kama. It is long, with a drainage basin of .

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River.name: Kosva
River.map: Kama basin.png
River.map_size: 200
River.map_caption: Scheme of the Kama River Basin.
River.source1_location: North Ural
River.mouth: Kama Reservoir
River.subdivision_type1: Country
River.subdivision_name1: Russia
River.progression: Kama Reservoir→

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Instance of: river
Country: Soviet Union
Located in: Perm Krai
Image: Р.Косьва (мост) - panoramio.jpg
Length: 283

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tributary: Kyrya
mouth of the watercourse: Kama Reservoir
watershed area: 6300
discharge: 90
title: Косва
described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Commons category: Kosva River

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The Kosva () is a river in Perm Krai and Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, a left tributary of the Kama. It is long, with a drainage basin of .

The river starts in the western portion of Sverdlovsk Oblast at the confluence of the Bolshaya Kosva (Large Kosva), flowing from the Pravdinsky Rock, and the Malaya Kosva (Small Kosva), flowing from the southern slope of the Kosvinsky Rock. It flows towards the west, and ends up in a bay of the Kama Reservoir. The Kosva is a mountain river with many waterfalls and rapids, among them the long Tulymsky Falls. In the middle parts of the river lies the Shirokovskaya hydroelectric power plant with Shirokovskoe Reservoir. The town of Gubakha is situated by the Kosva.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kosva” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.