- Kargat River
Kargat ( _ru. Каргат) is a river in
Novosibirsk Oblast ,Russia . It is a right tributary of the Chulym River. The Kargat is 387 km in length, with adrainage basin of 7 200 km².The river begins in the southern sections of the
Vasyugan Swamp , at 143 metersAMSL , and flows in a southwesterly direction over theBaraba Steppe , before flowing into the Chulym River at 110 meters AMSL. A significant part of its waters either evaporates or is infiltrated in the ground, and the average discharge (at the village of Nizhny Kargat, 36 km from its mouth) is just 8.54 m³/s. In its lower reaches the river is some 30 m wide and 2 m deep, with a flow rate of 0.1 m/s. The Kargat has no major tributaries.In its middle course is the town of
Kargat , named after the river. Here the river is crossed by theTrans-Siberian Railway and the M51 highway.The Kargat is frozen over from November to April/May.
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