The Odishi-Guria plain also known as Odishi-Guria lowland and Odishi Plateau ( ka, ოდიშის ვაკე) is a

plain In geography, a plain is a flat expanse of land that generally does not change much in elevation, and is primarily treeless. Plains occur as lowlands along valleys or at the base of mountains, as coastal plains, and as plateaus or uplands ...

in the middle part of

Samegrelo Mingrelia ( ka, სამეგრელო, tr; xmf, სამარგალო, samargalo; ab, Агырны, Agirni) is a historic province in the western part of Georgia, formerly known as Odishi. It is primarily inhabited by the Mingrelian ...

in western

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from the bottom of the Egrisi Range to the northern edge of the

Colchis lowland The Colchis Lowland ( ka, კოლხეთის დაბლობი, ) is a geographical area in Georgia, which consists of a coastal lowland plain of the eastern Black Sea. Named after Colchis, an ancient Greek name for this region, the lowl ...

. To the south, it is bordered by the Urta-Bis and Unagiri lakes, partly limestone, brachytic-clastic, hillsides. Odishi Plateau height is in the range 150-450 m. Odish Guria Lowland

Geography

Odishi-Guria plain has an elaborated network of rivers. There are a few uninhabited areas with deciduous forest-shrub foliage and wide sections of valleys linked to

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, ...

. The agricultural landscape prevails over the plains. Odishi-Guria plain encompasses the central, lowest part of the

Colchis In Greco-Roman geography, Colchis (; ) was an exonym for the Georgian polity of Egrisi ( ka, ეგრისი) located on the coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia. Its population, the Colchians are generally though ...

Landscape District, which lies on its western side by the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Rom ...

. It is characterized by Quaternary age and modern terrain with swampy surface, coastal-marine sediments, subtropical climate, tight hydrographic network, wetlands, mesophilic and hydrophilic vegetation development. The surface, especially in its seaside part, is characterized by intense moisture. Odishi-Guria plain is crossed by

Enguri The Enguri ( ka, ენგური, tr, xmf, ინგირი, ingiri, ab, Егры, ''Egry'' russian: Ингури, ''Inguri'') is a river in western Georgia. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .Khobi Khobi ( ka, ხობი) is a town in western Georgia with a population of 4,242. The settlement of Khobi acquired the status of a town in 1981 and currently functions as an administrative center of the Khobi District within the Samegrelo-Zem ...

Rioni The Rioni ( ka, რიონი, ; , ) is the main river of western Georgia. It originates in the Caucasus Mountains, in the region of Racha and flows west to the Black Sea, entering it north of the city of Poti (near ancient Phasis). The city ...

, Tekhuri and Abasha rivers. It also has many local streams that entirely run within the plain: Tikori, , Tsia, Tsivi, and Pichori rivers. As a result of excess accumulation of wet material, the riverbeds of these rivers are relatively elevated in some places above the surface of the adjoining floodplains. Some of the riverbeds (Jumi, Khobi, Itia, Cold, Technique, Abasha, Pichori and others) along the western side of the plain and along the right bank of the Rioni River are of varying intensity and are characterized by the development of meanders. There are lakes. Some of them are caverns of the former sea area and are characterized by small depths (paliastom, wide water, mulch, harkalu), while others developed in a meadows abandoned by rivers. Locals call such lakes "Narionals".

Flora

Vegetation is divided into several types. On a relatively dry, well-drained and saline surface of sandy dunes stretching along the coastline, where the main meadow cordon-sandy soils are developed, there are distinct peculiar, glorified groups of other Colchian vegetation. They are represented by plant groups of lithotal pseudophytes (milky, blue nar, etc.), bollworms (sea lily, etc.), colchicine isles, Imeretian mace, Glerta, perennial xerophytic shrubs (blackberry, hawthorn, hornbeam). As a result of human economic impacts, the natural structure of these groups has been severely degraded over a significant portion of the dunes and replaced by artificial forests. Maruashvili L., ''The Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia,'' Vol. 7, p. 502, Tbilisi, 1984

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