Mzymta is a river in Western Caucasus

Western Caucasus

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, Russia

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, flowing through Krasnodar Krai

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 and the city of Sochi

Sochi

Sochi is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated just north of Russia's border with the de facto independent republic of Abkhazia, on the Black Sea coast. Greater Sochi sprawls for along the shores of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains...

. Mzymta is the biggest river

River

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 in Russia emptying into the Black Sea

Black Sea

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. Length: 89 km; watershed area: 885 km².
Mzymta springs from Caucasus Major, at a height of 2,980 m and flows in a narrow valley through lakes Kardyvach and Little Kardyvach. Mzymta forms several waterfall

Waterfall

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s, the biggest being Izumrudny (Emerald), 15 m. The banks are covered with beech

Beech

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 forests and chestnut

Chestnut

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s, and also ancient Ubykh

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 garden

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s with wild pear

Pear

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, walnut

Walnut

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 and chestnut

Chestnut

Chestnut , some species called chinkapin or chinquapin, is a genus of eight or nine species of deciduous trees and shrubs in the beech family Fagaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce.-Species:The chestnut belongs to the...

. In Grecheskoye (Greek) gorge river comes more rapid. River comes through Akhshtyr and Dzykhra gorges, popular tourist attractions. Mzymta falls into the Black Sea near Adler

Adlersky City District

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, Sochi

Sochi

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 with a big talus train, dividing to branches and dodging by the floodplain

Floodplain

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s. Mzymta carries out to sea

Sea

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 quantum satis of silt

Silt

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. Mineral spring

Mineral spring

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s are also found in the catchment basin. The river has a mixed feeding

Feeding

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: spring tides and rain freshet

Freshet

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s.

Mzymta is a floatable river, and the popular attraction is a rafting

Rafting

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. Krasnopolyanskaya hydroelectric power station has a reservoir

Reservoir

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 with a daily streamflow regulation.

Average intensity of flow

• Krasnaya Polyana
  Krasnaya Polyana
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  : 33,2 c. m/s
• Kepsh: 45,6 c. m/s (max 764 c. m/s)

Inhabited localities

• Estosadok
  Estosadok
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• Krasnaya Polyana
  Krasnaya Polyana
  Krasnaya Polyana is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia:*Krasnaya Polyana, Krasnodar Krai, an urban locality in Krasnodar Krai...