Kaxgar (river)
Kaxgar Kashgar, Kashgar |
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Kaxgar in the Tarim river system |
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location | Xinjiang ( PR China ) | |
River system | Tarim | |
Drain over | Tarim → Lop Nor desert | |
above the city of Kashgar |
Kysylsuu ( Kirzlesu ) 39 ° 26 ′ 45 ″ N , 76 ° 0 ′ 3 ″ E |
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muzzle | south of Aksu in the Yarkant coordinates: 39 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ N , 78 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E 39 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ N , 78 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E
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length | 765 km (including the Kysylsuu headwaters ) | |
Catchment area | 90,800 km² | |
Drain |
MQ |
77 m³ / s |
Big cities | Kaxgar |
The Kaxgar ( Chinese 喀什 噶尔 河 , Pinyin Kāshígá'ĕr Hé ; Uighur قەشقەر دەرياسى, Yengi Ⱪəxⱪər dəryasi ) is a 765 km (including the upper reaches of the Kyzylsuu ) river in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang in northwest China .
The headwaters of the Kysylsuu or Kirzlesu lies on the northern flank of the Transalai chain in Kyrgyzstan . The river runs eastward from there and passes the city of Kaxgar named after it in the associated oasis , the largest in China, and the administrative district of Kaxgar . Only below the city of Kaxgar is the river called "Kaxgar". It then runs in the northwest of the Taklamakan desert in the Tarim Basin, named after the Tarim , to its confluence with the Yarkant south of Aksu .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article Kashgar in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)