HOME





Kara River (other)
Kara River may refer to: * Kara (river), flows into the Kara Sea in northern Russia * Kara (Shilka tributary), a tributary of the Shilka in Zabaykalsky Krai, eastern Russia * Kara River (Togo) See also * Kara (other) Kara or KARA may refer to: Geography Localities * Kara, Chad, a sub-prefecture * Kára, Hungary, a village * Kara, Uttar Pradesh, India, a township * Kara, Iran, a village in Lorestan Province * Kara, Republic of Dagestan, a rural locality in ... * Karasu (other) – "Su", literally 'water', may also mean 'river' or 'stream' {{Geodis ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Kara (river)
The Kara () is a river draining to the Arctic Kara Sea in Russia. It flows through the Pai-Khoi Range in the Polar Ural region, and forms parts of the borders between the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Komi Republic. The length of the river, from the confluence of the Malaya and Bolshaya Kara to the mouth in the Baydaratskaya Bay is . Its drainage basin area is . The settlement of Ust-Kara is near the river mouth. The name of the river is derived from Nenets The Nenets (; ), in the past also called 'Samoyeds' or 'Yuraks', are a Samoyedic ethnic group native to Arctic Russia, Russian Far North. According to the latest census in 2021, there were 49,646 Nenets in the Russian Federation, most of them l ... word meaning " hummocked ice".V.Yu. Vize, ''Karskoye more // Morya Sovetskoy Arktiki: Ocherki po istorii issledovaniya'' (Leningrad, 1939) — pp. 180—217 References Rivers of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Rivers of Nenets Au ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Kara (Shilka Tributary)
The Kara is a river in Transbaikalia, in Eastern Siberia. It is a left tributary of the Shilka, with the mouth at Ust-Karsk. It is long. In 1832 gold was found by the Kara. The deposit by the river was one of the richest in Transbaikalia. To man the gold mines, the system of Kara katorga Kara katorga () was the name for a set of katorga prisons of extremely high security located along the Kara River in Transbaikalia (a tributary of the Shilka River, flowing into it at Ust-Karsk) and part of the system of Nerchinsk katorga. G ... prisons (1830–98) was established. References Rivers of Zabaykalsky Krai {{FarEast-Russia-river-stub ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Kara River (Togo)
The Kara River is a river of northern Togo and Benin and a tributary of the Oti River. It rises in Benin's Donga Department and flows northwest through Kara Region in Togo, including through the town of Kara, emptying into the Oti River on the Togo-Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ... border. The Kara River Valley Agricultural Development Project is underway in the river valley, protecting about 300 square kilometres. References Rivers of Benin Rivers of Togo Kara Region Benin–Togo relations {{Benin-river-stub ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Kara (other)
Kara or KARA may refer to: Geography Localities * Kara, Chad, a sub-prefecture * Kára, Hungary, a village * Kara, Uttar Pradesh, India, a township * Kara, Iran, a village in Lorestan Province * Kara, Republic of Dagestan, a rural locality in Dagestan, Russia * Kara, Sardauna, a village in Sardauna, Nigeria * Kara, Bougainville, a town on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea * Kara, Togo, a city in northern Togo ** Kara Region ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Kara, Togo * Gaya confederacy or Kara, a former confederation in the southern Korean peninsula * Kara crater, a meteorite crater in northern Russia Rivers, Seas * Kara (river), a river in northern Russia, flowing into the Kara Sea * Kara River (other), other rivers named Kara * Kara Lake, Bolivia * Kara Sea, a sea in the Arctic Ocean * Kara Strait, a strait in Russia People * Kara (name), a surname and given name, and a list of people with the name * Kara people, an ethnic group in South Sudan, exceeding 100 ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]