Naryn River

Course of the Naryn ( Нарын )

The Naryn (Russian Нарын; Kyrgyz Нарын; Uzbek Norin ) is a 807 km long river in Central Asia, and is the true source of the river Syr Darya.

He is one of the largest and longest rivers in the Kyrgyz part of the Tianshan Mountains, through which it flows in a westerly direction, and the overall largest river of the country.

The source of the Naryn is situated in the territory of Issyk Kul in the high mountains south of the great natural lake Issyk Kul. Without this lake to reach or to flow through manages its water over Naryn to the west, among other things by the Toktogul Reservoir and reaches a little further south-west Uzbekistan, where he far from Namangan forms in extremely large Fergana Valley by the confluence with the Karadarja the Syr Darya.

The Naryn, which has an average of 13.7 km ³ runoff per year, accumulated a total of five times for irrigation purposes and for energy. The largest reservoir is the just mentioned Toktogul Reservoir, located in Toktogul and has covered with full back 284 km ² and 19.5 billion cubic meters of storage capacity; the Toktogul dam is 215 m high.

The Kambaratinsker dam with a planned storage capacity of 4.65 billion cubic meters is still under construction and is expected to reach a height of 255 m.