Kiya (river)
Appearance
Kiya | |
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Location | |
Country | Russia |
Physical characteristics | |
Mouth | Chulym |
• coordinates | 56°51′11″N 86°39′54″E / 56.8531°N 86.665°E |
Length | 548 km (341 mi) |
Basin size | 32,200 km2 (12,400 sq mi) |
Basin features | |
Progression | Chulym→ Ob→ Kara Sea |
The Kiya (Template:Lang-ru) is a river in Tomsk and Kemerovo Oblasts of Russia. It is a left tributary of the Chulym (in the Ob's drainage basin), and is 548 kilometres (341 mi) long, with a drainage basin of 32,200 square kilometres (12,400 sq mi).[1] The river has its sources in the Kuznetsky Alatau and flows in a northwesterly direction to its mouth in the Chulym some 40 kilometres (25 mi) upriver from the town of Asino.
Its main tributaries are from the right: Tyazhin and Chet, and from the left: Kozhakh and Antibes.
The town of Mariinsk lies along the Kiya.
References
- ^ "Река КИЯ in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).