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Kâhta Çayı

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Kâhta Çayı is a river in Adıyaman Province, Turkey, mostly in Kâhta district, rising in the southeast Taurus Mountains and draining into the Atatürk Reservoir. Its ancient name was the Nymphaios or Nymphaeus river. For most of its course, the Kâhta has a braided channel. The ancient city of Arsameia lay on its middle course, before the Cendere Çayı feeds it on the right. Before the Atatürk Dam was built, the Kâhta was a right tributary of the Euphrates River.

Flows through: Turkey.

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

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