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Muzat River

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Both spellings 木扎尔特河 along the upper course of the river and 木扎提河 along the lower course appear on the same map: Map 16-17 (Aksu Prefecture) in the Atlas of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Series: Road Atlases of China's Provinces, by Xingqiu Publishers (中国分省公路丛书.新疆维吾尔自治区/星球地图出版社编), 2008,
236:). With the surface area of 50,000 m², the reservoir has been described as "the largest swimming pool" in southern Xinjiang. However, its construction may have destroyed the possibility of future archaeological 165:, in the valley between the main range of the Tian Shan and the Queletage Mountains (却勒塔格山) to the south. Most of Baicheng County's population lives in the valley irrigated by this river. 345: 182: 293: 32: 243:
Farther east the river enters a wide plain, where most of its water is taken into irrigation channels supporting the agriculture of the
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Hydrologist consider it part of the "Pobeda - Khan-Tengri glacier massif" (Aizen & Aizen (1998))
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Counties. Theoretically, the Muzart River is considered a left tributary of the
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Estimation of glacial runoff to the Tarim River, central Tien Shan
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E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, Volume 1
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Peak, and flows toward the southeast and east through
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Hydrology, Water Resources and Ecology in Headwaters
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Index

Muzat River is located in China
China
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Chinese
Chinese
Uyghur
romanized
Aksu Prefecture
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
People's Republic of China
Tarim River
Persian
Muzart Glacier
Tian Shan
Khan Tengri
Baicheng County
Kucha
Kizil Caves
41°44′45″N 82°26′40″E / 41.74583°N 82.44444°E / 41.74583; 82.44444
simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese
pinyin
excavations
Kuqa
Toksu
Xayar
Tarim River
Muzart Pass
ISBN
978-7-80212-469-1

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