The Kargat (russian: Каргат) is a river in
Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast (russian: Новосиби́рская о́бласть, ''Novosibirskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in southwestern Siberia. Its administrative and economic center is the city of Novosibirsk ...
,
Russia
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. It is a right tributary of the
Chulym. The Kargat is in length, with a
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...
of .
Course
The river begins in the southern sections of the
Vasyugan Swamp
The Vasyugan Swamp () is the largest swamp in the northern hemisphere as well as the largest peatland in the world. It is located in Russia, in southwestern Siberia.
The swamp is a major reservoir of fresh water for the region, and the Vasyugan ...
, at above sea level and flows in a southwesterly direction over the
Baraba Steppe
The Baraba steppe or Baraba Lowland (), is a plain in western Siberia.
The Baraba Lowland is an important Russian agricultural region.
Geography
It stretches for across the Omsk and Novosibirsk oblasts between the Irtysh and the Ob Rivers.
Gra ...
, before flowing into the Chulym River at an elevation of .
A significant part of its waters either evaporates or is infiltrated in the ground, and the average discharge at the village of Nizhny Kargat, from its mouth, is just . In its lower reaches the river is some wide and deep, with a flow rate of . 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 the
Trans-Siberian Railway
The Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR; , , ) connects European Russia to the Russian Far East. Spanning a length of over , it is the longest railway line in the world. It runs from the city of Moscow in the west to the city of Vladivostok in the ea ...
and the
M51 highway.
The Kargat is frozen over from November to April or May.
See also
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List of rivers of Russia
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References
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Rivers of Novosibirsk Oblast
Endorheic basins of Asia