Key facts
- Country
- Georgia , ( Abkhazia )
- Location
- Caucasus Major
- Elevation
- 2,300 m (7,500 ft)
- Length
- 110 km (68 mi)
- Basin size
- 1,510 km (580 mi )
- Average
- 96 m /s (3,400 cu ft/s)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Georgia (country)
- Located in
- Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia
- Continent
- Europe
- Image
- Вид реки Бзыбь с подвесного моста 2021-06-04.jpg
- Length
- 110
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- watershed area
- 1510
- mouth of the watercourse
- Black Sea
- Commons category
- Bzyb River
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- discharge
- 97
- tributary
- Gega
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Bzyb or Bzipi (/bzɪb/ or /bzipi/; Georgian: ბზიფი; Abkhaz: Бзыԥ, romanized: Bzyṗ) is (along with the Kodori) one of the two longest rivers of Abkhazia and the twelfth longest river in Georgia. The river valley has rich biodiversity of herbaceous garden plants, particularly in the gorge section in the upper reaches where the most prominent and colourful bellflower Campanula mirabilis [is] with profuse growth of 100 flowers per plant is given the name, the "Queen of the Abkhazian flora". During 1904-1917 it served as the border between the Russian Empire's Sukhumi Okrug and the Black Sea Governorate.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bzyb River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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