The Sylva () is a
river
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in
Sverdlovsk Oblast
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and
Perm Krai
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in
Russia
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. It is in length.
The
area
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of the
basin is .
The Sylva flows into the Chusovoy
Cove
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of the
Kama Reservoir
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. It freezes up in November and stays under the ice until April. Principal tributaries:
Iren,
Babka
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,
Irgina,
Vogulka (left);
Barda,
Shakva (right).
Main port:
Kungur.
Every year hundreds of tourists come to Kungur, through routes down the Sylva, Iren and Shakva rivers. The Sylva River flows leisurely over a flat plateau, across Preduraliye Nature Preserve, and past abrupt cliffs, fossilized remnants of coral reefs left by the long-disappeared
Great Permian Sea, which at some places rise up to above the level of the river, covered with pine and fir groves.
Inhabited localities
*The town of
Kungur
*The urban-type settlement of
Suksun
*The village of
Molyobka
References
*
Rivers of Perm Krai
Rivers of Sverdlovsk Oblast
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