The Sulitsa (, ) is a river in

Tatarstan Tatarstan, officially the Republic of Tatarstan, sometimes also called Tataria, is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is a part of the Volga Federal District; and its capital city, capital and largest city i ...

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, a right-bank

tributary A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they ...

of the

Sviyaga The Sviyaga (; ; , ''Sĕve'') is a river in the Ulyanovsk Oblast and Tatarstan, a right tributary of the Volga.Свияга
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. It is long, and its

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...

covers .«Река Сулица»
Russian State Water Registry It begins west of Maydan village of the

Verkhneuslonsky District Verkhneuslonsky District (; ) is a territorial administrative unit and municipality of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russia, Russian Federation. The district is located in the west of the republic on the right bank of the Volga River and enc ...

and flows to the

Kuybyshev Reservoir Kuybyshev Reservoir or Kuybyshevskoye Reservoir () is a reservoir of the middle Volga and lower Kama in Chuvashia, Mari El Republic, Republic of Tatarstan, Samara Oblast and Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia. It is sometimes called as Samara Reservoir an ...

south of

Sviyazhsk Sviyazhsk (; ) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located at the confluence of the Volga and Sviyaga Rivers. It is often referred to as an island since the 1955 construction of the Kuybyshev Reservoir downstr ...

. Major tributaries are the Changara, Mamatkozino, and Klyancheyka. The maximal mineralization 500–700 mg/L. The average sediment deposition at the

river mouth A river mouth is where a river flows into a larger body of water, such as another river, a lake/reservoir, a bay/gulf, a sea, or an ocean. At the river mouth, sediments are often deposited due to the slowing of the current, reducing the carryin ...

per year is . Drainage is regulated. Since 1978 it has been protected as a ''natural monument of Tatarstan''.

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{{reflist Rivers of Tatarstan