Çoruh River
Sign in to saveThe Chorokh () ( ''Ch'orokhi'' is a river that rises in the Mescit Mountains in north-eastern Turkey, flows through the cities of Bayburt, İspir, Yusufeli, and Artvin, along the Kelkit-Çoruh Fault, before flowing into Georgia, where it reaches the Black Sea just south of Batumi and a few kilometers north of the Turkey-Georgia border.
Key facts
- River.name
- Çoruh
- River.other_name
- Chorokh, Ch'orokhi, Acampsis
- River.image
- Çoruh River.jpg
- River.image_size
- 250px
- River.source1_location
- Mescit Mountains
- River.mouth
- Black Sea
- River.subdivision_type1
- Countries
- River.subdivision_name1
- Turkey and Georgia
- River.length_km
- 438
- River.basin_size_km2
- 22100
- River.tributaries_right
- Machakhelistsqali, Acharistsqali
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- watercourse
- Country
- Georgia (country)
- Continent
- Asia
- Image
- Choruh 02.jpg
- Length
- 438
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- impounded by
- Muratlı Dam
- basin country
- Georgia (country)
- Commons category
- Çoruh River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Black Sea
- topic's main category
- Category:Çoruh
- category for the water basin
- Category:Tributaries of the Çoruh
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- watershed area
- 22000
- discharge
- 285
- crosses
- Georgia–Turkey border
- native label
- ჭოროხი
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Biodiversity
- Recreation
- Dams
- See also
- References
The Chorokh () ( ''Ch'orokhi'' is a river that rises in the Mescit Mountains in north-eastern Turkey, flows through the cities of Bayburt, İspir, Yusufeli, and Artvin, along the Kelkit-Çoruh Fault, before flowing into Georgia, where it reaches the Black Sea just south of Batumi and a few kilometers north of the Turkey-Georgia border.
In Arrian's Periplus Ponti Euxini, it is called the Acampsis (); Pliny may have confused it with the Bathys. Procopius writes that it was called Acampsis because it was impossible to force a way through it after it has entered the sea, since it discharges its stream with such force and swiftness, causing a great disturbance of the water before it, that it goes out for a very great distance into the sea and makes it impossible to coast along at that point.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Çoruh River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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