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Rriver Usek. Dzhungarsky Alatau.
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The river Usek originates on southern slopes of ridges Toksanbay and Tyshkantau Dzhungarskiy (Zhetysusky) of Ala-Tau. The river consists of inflows Big Usek, Middle Usek and Small Usek and flows in the southern direction to the bed of the river Ili.
Usek river extent from Big Usek source to a confluence with the boggy lake in the Ili valley makes 115 km. Usek waters, leaves mountains, understand on irrigation and economic needs of the town of Zharkent and the villages located along the river and also are lost in the Ili valley, causing its strong bogging, then disappears in the lake Truncated.
Ili Usek beds of the river does not reach. Usek all sources of the river flow down from the ridge Toksanbay, and in Big Usek the rivers flowing from northern slopes of the ridge Tyshkantau get. The ridge Toksanbay is a watershed between sources of the river Usek also a source to Koksu - the rivers the Kazan.
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http://almatyregion-tour.kz/ru/location/usek-gorge.html
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Alexander Ptrov.