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Tylihul | |
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The Tylihul River | |
Native name | Тилігул (Ukrainian) |
Location | |
Country | Ukraine |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Podolian Upland |
Mouth | |
• location | Tylihul Estuary |
Length | 168 km (104 mi) |
Basin size | 3,550 km (1,370 sq mi) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | Zhurivka |
The Tylihul (Ukrainian: Тилігул) is a river in the Odesa Oblast of southern Ukraine. It is 168 km long, up to 10–20 m wide, with a watershed of 3,550 km. Its source is in the Podilian Upland and it flows through a narrow (1.0—1.5 km wide) valley to the Black Sea depression, where the valley widens up to 3 km. The river inflows to the Tylihul Estuary.
The name of the river comes from the name of the water body into which it flows, the Tylihul Estuary, Turkish: Deli Göl, which means "mad or rabid lake".
Rivers of Ukraine by tributary or drainage basin | |
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Black Sea | |
Bug | |
Danube | |
Dnieper (Rapids) | |
Dniester | |
Don | |
Pripyat | |
San | |
Sea of Azov | |
Southern Bug | |
Syvash |
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