Zhabay
Sign in to saveThe Zhabay (; ) is a river in Zerendy, Sandyktau and Atbasar districts, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan. It has a length of and a basin size of . The river passes by Sandyktau, Balkashino and Atbasar towns. The water is used in local farms mainly for agricultural field irrigation and watering cattle.
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- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Kazakhstan
- Elevation
- 266
- Image
- Река Жабай.jpg
- Length
- 196
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- Zhabay
- watershed area
- 8800
- mouth of the watercourse
- Ishim
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The Zhabay (; ) is a river in Zerendy, Sandyktau and Atbasar districts, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan. It has a length of and a basin size of . The river passes by Sandyktau, Balkashino and Atbasar towns. The water is used in local farms mainly for agricultural field irrigation and watering cattle.
==Course== The Zhabay is a right tributary of the Ishim. It has its sources in the Zerendi Mountains, a subrange of the Kokshetau Hills. It flows in a roughly SSW direction all along its course and joins the right bank of the Ishim near Timashevka. The channel in the lower course is wide and flowing slowly. Its width reaches up to . The river water is fresh, with a salinity between and . The Zhabay freezes towards the end of October and stays under ice until the second half of April. Variations in level are marked, depending from the season and the year. There were catastrophic floods in 2014 and 2017, affecting mainly Atbasar town.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zhabay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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