Kiya
Location
CountryRussia
Physical characteristics
SourceKuznetsk Alatau
MouthChulym
  coordinates
56°51′11″N 86°39′54″E / 56.8531°N 86.665°E / 56.8531; 86.665
Length548 km (341 mi)
Basin size32,200 km2 (12,400 sq mi)
Basin features
ProgressionChulymObKara Sea

The Kiya (Russian: Ки́я) is a river in Tomsk and Kemerovo Oblasts of Russia. It is a left tributary of the Chulym (in the Ob's drainage basin), and is 548 kilometres (341 mi) long, with a drainage basin of 32,200 square kilometres (12,400 sq mi).[1] The river has its sources in the Kuznetsk Alatau and flows in a northwesterly direction to its mouth in the Chulym some 40 kilometres (25 mi) upriver from the town of Asino.

Its main tributaries are from the right: Tyazhin and Chet, and from the left: Kozhakh and Antibes.

The town of Mariinsk lies along the Kiya.

References

  1. "Река КИЯ in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).


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