Kovda
Sign in to saveThe Kovda (, ) is a river in the south of the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast and Republic of Karelia, Russia. It is long, with a drainage basin of . The Kovda originates in the Lake Topozero and flows through the lakes Lake Pyaozero and Lake Kovdozero into the Kandalaksha Gulf.
Key facts
- River.name
- Kovda
- River.name_other
- Kuma, Iova
- River.image
- Р. Иова возле Зареченска.jpg
- River.image_caption
- Iova
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia
- River.subdivision_type3
- Region
- River.subdivision_name3
- Murmansk Oblast, Republic of Karelia
- River.length_km
- 233
- River.source1_location
- Lake Topozero
- River.mouth_location
- Kandalaksha Gulf
- River.basin_size_km2
- 26100
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- tributary
- Tumcha
- category for the water basin
- Category:Kovda basin
- Commons category
- Kovda River
- mouth of the watercourse
- White Sea
- watershed area
- 26100
- discharge
- 276
- lake on watercourse
- Iovsk Reservoir
- origin of the watercourse
- Topozero
- different from
- Kovda
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The Kovda (, ) is a river in the south of the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast and Republic of Karelia, Russia. It is long, with a drainage basin of . The Kovda originates in the Lake Topozero and flows through the lakes Lake Pyaozero and Lake Kovdozero into the Kandalaksha Gulf.
The drainage basin of the Kovda includes the biggest lakes of the north of the Republic of Karelia and the south of Murmansk Oblast, such as Lake Topozero, Lake Pyaozero, Lake Tikshozero, and Lake Kovdozero.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kovda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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