Orto-Tokoy Reservoir or Orto-Tokoi Reservoir (), is a
reservoir
A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.
Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...
of the
Chu River
The Chu is a river in northern Kyrgyzstan and southern Kazakhstan. Of its total length of ,[Чу (река)]
, located in
Kochkor District
Kochkor () is a district of Naryn Region in northern-central Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains, Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Cap ...
of
Naryn Region
Naryn Region is the largest region of Kyrgyzstan. It is located in the east of the country and borders with Chüy Region in the north, Issyk-Kul Region in the northeast, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China in the southeast, Osh Region i ...
of
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains, Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Kyrgyzstan, largest city. Kyrgyz ...
. It has a surface area of 24 km
2 and a maximum volume of 470 × 10
6 meters
3.
See also
*
Kasan-Sai Reservoir (formerly called the Orto-Tokoy Reservoir)
References
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Reservoirs built in the Soviet Union
Reservoirs in Kyrgyzstan
Chu (river)
Syr Darya basin