Iori River
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Key facts
- Native name
- იორი ( Georgian ) Qabırrı ( Azerbaijani )
- Country
- Georgia , Azerbaijan
- Source
- Greater Caucasus
- Mouth
- Mingachevir reservoir
- Length
- 320 km (200 mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Kakheti
- Continent
- Asia
- Elevation
- 80
- Image
- Riv. Iori.jpg
- Length
- 320
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- native label
- იორი
- Commons category
- Iori River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Kura River
- watershed area
- 4650
- origin of the watercourse
- Greater Caucasus
- discharge
- 116
- basin country
- Azerbaijan
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Encyclopedic overview
The Iori (Georgian: იორი, Azerbaijani: Qabırrı) is a river in the South Caucasus that originates in the Greater Caucasus Mountains in eastern Georgia and flows south into Azerbaijan, where it is also known as Gabirry (Qabirry). The river eventually flows into the Mingachevir reservoir, which is drained by the Kura. It is 320 km (200 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 4,650 km (1,800 sq mi). It starts in the mountains northeast of Tianeti, flows through that town, swings east and flows through the lowlands parallel to and between the Alazani (north) and the Kura (south).
In Antiquity, the river was known as the Cambyses river. This ancient name of the river was also lent to the ancient region of Cambysene.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iori River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.