Kechut
Kechut, formerly Kushchi and Kush-Bilyak, is a village in the Jermuk Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia. It is located on the western coast of the Kechut Reservoir which is a section of the Arpa river, as well as at the beginning of the Kechut–Azatek waterway, which is one of the artificial waterways that provide water to Lake Sevan and stabilize its water level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 904 residents
- Description: village in Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia
- Historically known as: “Kush-Bilyak” and “Kushchi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kechut reservoir and Jermuk Waterfall.
Jermuk Waterfall
Waterfall
Photo: X.narine, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jermuk Waterfall is situated 3½ km north of Kechut.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jermuk and Gndevaz.
Jermuk
Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jermuk is a mountain spa town and the centre of the Jermuk Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province in southern Armenia, at a road distance of 53 km east of the provincial capital Yeghegnadzor.
Gndevaz
Village
Photo: Valen1988, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gndevaz is a village in the Jermuk Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia. It is home to the 10th century Gndevank Monastery. Gndevaz is situated 6 km southwest of Kechut.
Saravan
Village
Saravan is a village in the Vayk Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia. Saravan is situated 9 km south of Kechut.
Kechut
- Categories: village in Armenia, residential area, and locality
- Location: Jermuk Municipality, Vayots Dzor Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
39.80316° or 39° 48′ 11″ northLongitude
45.66884° or 45° 40′ 8″ eastPopulation
904Elevation
2,010 metres (6,594 feet)Open location code
8HF7RM39+7GOpenStreetMap ID
way 133782540OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Uzbek—“Kechut” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Kech’ut”
- Armenian: “Կեչուտ”
- Armenian: “Ղուշչի” (historical)
- Azerbaijani: “Keçud”
- Azerbaijani: “Quşçu”
- Bavarian: “Ketschut”
- Cebuano: “Kech’uti Jrambar”
- Chechen: “Кечут”
- Dutch: “Kechut”
- Georgian: “კეჩუტი”
- German: “Keč̕owt”
- German: “Ketschut”
- Persian: “کچوت”
- Russian: “Кечут”
- Scots: “Kechut”
- Spanish: “Kechut”
- Swedish: “Kechut”
- Turkish: “Kechut”
- Turkish: “Kuşçu”
- Ukrainian: “Кечут”
- Uzbek: “Kechut”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kechut”. Photo: Armineaghayan, CC BY-SA 3.0.