The Asa ( kk, Аса, ''Asa'') is a river of

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

Course

The river has its source in the

Karatau Mountains The Karatau or Qaratau ( kk, Қаратау жотасы, Qarataw jotasy) is a mountain range located in southern Kazakhstan. The name Karatau means ''Black Mountain'' in the Kazakh language. The mountains have deposits of phosphorite, lead a ...

. It flows through lakes Bilikol and

Akkol Akkol ( kz, Ақкөл, ''Aqköl'', zh, 阿科尔), formerly known as ''Alexeyevka'' (russian: italic=yes, Алексеевка, until 1997), is a town in northern Kazakhstan. It is located north of the national capital Nur-Sultan along the hig ...

. Further downstream it vanishes in the

Muyunkum Desert The Muyunkum Desert ( kk, Мойынқұм, ''Moiynqūm''), is a desert in the Jambyl Region of southern Kazakhstan. Common plant types in the desert include the saksaul, milkvetch, mugwort and sedge. Geography It extends from the Chu River in ...

before reaching the river Talas. The river is long and has a basin area of .Асса

Great Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...

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