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. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . The name ''sary su'' means ''yellow water'' in

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It arises above

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and flows generally westward to Kzyl-Dzhar where it turns south-westward past Birlestik and Zhanabas, then heading ever-more southerly it ends in the Telikol, across a cluster of small intermittent lakes at the western end of the Ashchykol Depression and to the east of the Dariyaly plain.Сырдарья (река)

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The long Shieli-Telikol Canal was built for irrigation, connecting the Telikol lacustrine basin to the north with the

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river near Shieli.

References

* Allen, W. E. D. (1956) "The Sources for G. Delisle's "Carte des Pays Voisins de la Mer Caspiene" of 1723" ''Imago Mundi'' 13: pp. 137–150, p. 139 Rivers of Kazakhstan {{Kazakhstan-river-stub