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The Enguri ( ka, ენგური, tr , , , ''Egry'') is a river in western Statistical Yearbook of Georgia: 2020
National Statistics Office of Georgia, Tbilisi, 2020, p. 12. It originates near Ushguli in northeastern Svaneti and plays an important role in providing
The river emerges from the high
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Georgia
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. It is long, and has a drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land in which 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, ...
of .National Statistics Office of Georgia, Tbilisi, 2020, p. 12. It originates near Ushguli in northeastern Svaneti and plays an important role in providing
hydroelectric
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power to the area and the country.
The river emerges from the high Caucasus
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near the highest mountain in Georgia, Shkhara, and winds through the mountain valleys to the northwest before turning southwest to empty into the Black Sea
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near Anaklia.
Since the Abkhaz–Georgian conflict, both Georgia and Abkhazia keep troops on the river; Russia
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also keeps peacekeeping
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troops. The only legal crossing-point is the long , which was built by German prisoners of war
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from 1944 until 1948. There are also a number of illegal connections across the river.
The river plays an important role in the Georgian energy production. In 1988 the Enguri Dam was built at a height of . At across and high, it is the largest construction in the Caucasus. The dam has the capacity to hold of water. The underground water works produce about 40% of the national energy. The capacity is 1,300 megawatts.
See also
* Abkhazia–Georgia border * MulkhuraReferences
External links
Die Brücke der Deutschen
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