The Tylihul () is a
river
A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...
in the
Odesa Oblast
Odesa Oblast (), also referred to as Odeshchyna (Одещина), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of southwestern Ukraine, located along the northern coast of the Black Sea. Its administrative centre is the city of Ode ...
of southern
Ukraine
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. It is 168 km long, up to 10–20 m wide, with a watershed of 3,550 km
2. Its source is in the
Podilian Upland and it flows through a narrow (1.0—1.5 km wide) valley to the
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bound ...
depression, where the valley widens up to 3 km. The river inflows to the
Tylihul Estuary.
The name of the river comes from the name of the water body into which it flows, the Tylihul Estuary, , which means "mad or rabid lake".
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Rivers of Odesa Oblast
Geography of Berezivka Raion
Kuialnyk rural hromada