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. It has a

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and is part of the Magadan Nature Reserve. Its last stretch is navigable.

Course

The Taui river, as the Kava, is formed at an elevation of at the confluence of rivers Rasava and Lozovaya flowing from the Kheidzhan Range,

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/ref> The Taui flows first southeastwards and then roughly eastwards along the Kava-Taui Plain (Кава-Тауйская равнина), a wide

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. Finally it flows into the Amakhton Bay, part of the Taui Bay of the

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. Its mouth lies west of the

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lagoon and just southwest of the mouth of the

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The river freezes before mid October and stays frozen until mid May. The Kheidzhan Range separates the Taui basin from the Inya basin to the west. The main tributary of the Taui is the long Chyolomdzha (Чёломджа) that joins it in its lower course from the left.

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Floating Tours Down The Rivers of Magadan RegionKolyma - Modern Guidebook to Magadan Oblast
Rivers of Magadan Oblast Drainage basins of the Sea of Okhotsk {{Russia-river-stub

Course

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