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Chilik (river)

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Chilik, Shilik (Kazakh), or Shelek (Kazakh) is a major river in the Almaty Region in the Republic of Kazakhstan, one of the largest left tributaries of the Ili, and the main waterway of southeastern Kazakhstan. The Bartogay reservoir has been created on the river, from where the Great Almaty canal begins.

Flows through: Kazakhstan.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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