The Qatur ( az, Qotur çay, fa, قطورچای, tr, Kotur çayı, also transliterated as ''Ghotour'') is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

in eastern

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

and northwestern

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

.Ghotour Bridge
Structurae. It is a right tributary of the river Aras. It rises in the Saray District of eastern

, where it is also referred to as ''Çaybağı Çayı''. The

Ghotour Bridge Ghotour Bridge is a railway bridge in Khoy County, West Azarbaijan Province, Iran, over the river Ghotour. It is an arch bridge An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferrin ...

, part of the Van–Sufian railway, crosses the river near the city

Khoy Khoy (Persian and az, خوی; ; ; also Romanized as Khoi), is a city and capital of Khoy County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2012 census, its population was 200,985. Khoy is located north of the province's capital and largest city ...

. The area has a cold

semi-arid A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate. There are different kinds of semi-ar ...

climate Climate is the long-term weather pattern in an area, typically averaged over 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years. Some of the meteorologic ...

(

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...

BSk).Khatun Bridge

References

{{reflist Rivers of Iran Rivers of Turkey Landforms of West Azerbaijan Province