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The Naxçıvançay (English: Nakhchivan river) is a river in the Babek and Shahbuz Districts (Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic) in Azerbaijan.

Key facts

River.name
Naxçıvançay
River.image
Vayxır su anbarı.JPG
River.subdivision_type1
Country
River.subdivision_name1
Azerbaijan

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
river
Country
Azerbaijan
Elevation
776
Image
Vayxır su anbarı.JPG
Length
81
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mouth of the watercourse
Aras Reservoir
basin country
Azerbaijan
watershed area
1630
discharge
5.23
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The Naxçıvançay (English: Nakhchivan river) is a river in the Babek and Shahbuz Districts (Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic) in Azerbaijan.

== Details == Naxçıvançay is a left tributary of the Aras River. It is considered the largest and most watery river of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. The river is 81 kilometres long and has a basin area of 1630 square kilometres. Its source is located on the southern slope of the Daralayaz range at an absolute altitude of 2,720 m. The total slope of the riverbed (the slope of the fall) is 1972 m.

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

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