Rikoti Pass

The Rikoti Pass ( _ka. რიკოთის უღელტეხილი) (el. 996 meters) is a mountain pass in the southern portion of the Likhi Range, a spur of the Greater Caucasus which divides Georgia into its western and eastern parts. The Tbilisi-Kutaisi highway connecting the two major cities of Georgia runs through the pass in a rock-cut tunnel of 1,722 m. length which was constructed in 1982. [ [http://www.privatization.ge/spp/spp/news_view.php?lang=en&action=article&news_id=48 Rikoti pass automobile tunnel to be granted on 20 years- term lease] . Ministry of Economic Development of Georgia. Retrieved on April 17 2008.]

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