The Iupshara (, ) is a river in northern
Abkhazia
Abkhazia, officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a List of states with limited recognition, partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia. It cover ...
,
Georgia
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* Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus
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.
The river flows from
Lake Ritsa
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Lake Ritsa ( ka, რიწა, tr; ) is a lake in the north-western part of Abkhazia, in the Caucasus Mountains. It is surrounded by mixed mountain forests and subalpine meadows. The road from the Black Sea coast was built in 1936. Th ...
, the deepest lake in
Abkhazia
Abkhazia, officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a List of states with limited recognition, partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia. It cover ...
(116 m),
to the
Gega River, a tributary of the
Bzyb River.
The total length of the river is with a
gradient
In vector calculus, the gradient of a scalar-valued differentiable function f of several variables is the vector field (or vector-valued function) \nabla f whose value at a point p gives the direction and the rate of fastest increase. The g ...
of . It
drains an area of . The highest discharge of the Iupshara is in May, , and the lowest in February, .
References
Rivers of Abkhazia
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