Kargat River

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The 387 km long Kargat (Russian Каргат ) is a right tributary of Chulym in the West Siberian Plain (Russia, Asia).

The Kargat arises in the southern part of the Wassjugan swamps at 143 m. It flows - always on the territory of Novosibirsk Oblast - in a southwesterly direction through the Barabasteppe in the southeast part of the West Siberian Plain and leads finally just little east of Tschanysees in the Chulym ( about 110 m).

The catchment area of ​​7200 km ² comprises Kargat. By evaporation and percolation decreases the water flow in the lower course of the river, is the village of Nizhny Kargat, 36 km away from the mouth, only 8.54 m³ / s In the lower reaches of the river is about 30 m wide, 2 m deep, the flow velocity is 0.1 m / s The Kargat has no major tributaries.

In the middle reaches of the river, the city Kargat, where the river of the Trans-Siberian railway and the highway is crossed M51 lies.

The Kargat freezes from November until the second half of April.

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