Bolshaya Karaganka (in the upper Karaganka) is a river in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia , flows through the territory of the Kizil and Bredinsky districts. The mouth of the river is located in 1959 km on the left bank of the Ural River . The length of the river is 111 km, the catchment area is 3470 km². The hydronym is compared with the Kazakh charaga "Chiliga" (a bush from the legume family) [2] . There is another version: the toponymist A. A. Voronkov from Chelyabinsk considers it possible that the etymological relationship of the formant he singles out is the Ghana with the Paleobalkan word with the meaning "ocean" [3] .
| Big Karaganka | |
|---|---|
| Characteristic | |
| Length | 111 km |
| Pool | 3470 km² |
| Watercourse | |
| Source | |
| • Location | Kizilsky district |
| • Coordinates | |
| Mouth | Ural |
| • Location | 1959 km on the left bank |
| • Coordinates | |
| Location | |
| Water system | Ural → Caspian Sea |
| A country |
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| Region | Chelyabinsk region |
| HWR code | |
 - source  - mouth | |
On the elevated cape, formed by the confluence of the Bolshaya Karaganka and Utyaganka rivers, is Arkaim - a fortified settlement of the Middle Bronze Age at the turn of the 20th / 18-18 / 16th centuries. BC e.
Tributaries
(km from the mouth)
- 1.5 km: Malaya Karaganka (lv)
- 25 km: Ilyaska (ave.)
- 37 km: Amambayka (ave.)
- 63 km: Utyaganka (lv)
- 74 km: Kairakhta (ave.)
- 84 km: Mandesarka (ave.)
Water registry data
According to the state water register of Russia, it belongs to the Ural basin district , the water sector of the river Ural from Magnitogorsk hydroelectric complex to Iriklinsky hydroelectric complex , the river sub-basin of the river - no sub-basin. The river basin is the Urals (the Russian part of the basin) [4] .
The code of the object in the state water registry is 12010000312112200002189 [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Surface Water Resources of the USSR: Hydrological Understanding. T. 12. Lower Volga and Western Kazakhstan. Vol. 2. Ural-Emba region / ed. Z. G. Markova. - L .: Gidrometeoizdat, 1966 .-- 152 p.
- ↑ A.K. Matveev. Geographical names of the Urals. - Ekaterinburg, 2008.
- ↑ FORMANT -GAN IN THE HYDRONIMES OF THE SOUTHERN TRANS-URALS .
- ↑ 1 2 State Water Register of the Russian Federation: Bolshaya Karaganka . Archived August 24, 2012.