Kyzylsu River
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The Qizilsu () or Kyzylsu () is a river that rises on the southern slopes of the Vakhsh Range in the north-east of Tajikistan's Khatlon Region and runs south-west until joining the Panj on the border with Afghanistan. The river is long and has a basin area of . It merges with the Yakhsu (Akhshu) as a major left tributary south of the town of Kulob. It irrigates the cotton-growing Qizilsu Valley between Kulob and Panj in the south-east of Khatlon Province. It is not the Kyzyl-Suu River that rises in Kyrgyzstan and flows through Tajikistan as Surkhob, then Vakhsh, following a course north-west o
Key facts
- River.name
- Qizilsu
- River.mouth
- Panj
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Tajikistan
- River.length_km
- 230
- River.basin_size_km2
- 8630
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Tajikistan
- Continent
- Asia
- Length
- 230
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- mouth of the watercourse
- Panj River
- tributary
- Q4539744
- watershed area
- 8630
- discharge
- 75
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The Qizilsu () or Kyzylsu () is a river that rises on the southern slopes of the Vakhsh Range in the north-east of Tajikistan's Khatlon Region and runs south-west until joining the Panj on the border with Afghanistan. The river is long and has a basin area of . It merges with the Yakhsu (Akhshu) as a major left tributary south of the town of Kulob. It irrigates the cotton-growing Qizilsu Valley between Kulob and Panj in the south-east of Khatlon Province. It is not the Kyzyl-Suu River that rises in Kyrgyzstan and flows through Tajikistan as Surkhob, then Vakhsh, following a course north-west of Qizilsu.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kyzylsu River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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