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:''"Chui River" and "Chuy River" redirect here. For the river of Anhui see Chu River (Anhui). For the South American Chuí or Chuy River, on the Brazil-Uruguay border and Brazil's southernmost point, see Chuí Stream. For the Nam Sam River or Chu River, on the Lao-Vietnam border, see Nam Sam River.'' The Chu (Shu or Chui, Chuy) ((カザフ語:''Шу''), (キルギス語:''Чүй''), (ロシア語:''Чу'')) is a river in northern Kyrgyzstan and southern Kazakhstan. At approximately 663 miles (1067 km〔Great Soviet Encyclopedia〕) in length, it is one of the longest rivers in Kyrgyzstan. Chuy Oblast, the northernmost and most populous administrative region of Kyrgyzstan, is named after the river; so are the Chuy Avenue, the main street of Bishkek, and the city of Shu in Kazakhstan's Zhambyl Province. ==Course== The Chu River is formed by the confluence of rivers Joon Aryk and Kochkor in Kochkor District of Naryn Province. After approaching lake Issyk Kul within a few kilometers (near Balykchy), without either flowing into the lake or draining it, it turns to the northwest. In the 1950s an old riverbed called Ketmaldy (also Buugan) linking Chu River and Issyk Kul could be seen. During floods part of Chu water were reaching the lake. Such outflow can not be seen since construction of the Orto-Tokoy Reservoir. After passing through the narrow Boom Gorge ((ロシア語:Боомское ущелье)), the river enters the comparatively flat Chuy Valley, within which the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek and the Kazakh city of Shu are located. Much of the Chu's water is diverted into a network of canals to irrigate the fertile black soils of the Chuy Valley for farming, both on the Kyrgyz and Kazakh sides of the river. As the Chu flows through the Chuy Valley, it forms the border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan for more than a hundred kilometers, but then it leaves Kyrgyzstan and flows into Kazakhstan, where, like many other rivers and streams that drain northern Kyrgyzstan it eventually disappears in the steppe, short of reaching the Syr Darya, into which it would drain in wet years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chu River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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