Chatkal
The Chatkal is a river of Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan and Tashkent Region in Uzbekistan. It is the left source river of the Chirchiq in the Syr Darya basin.Photo: Anton Rakitskiy, Public domain.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river
- Also known as: “Chatkal River” and “Chotqol”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Obi-Rakhmat Grotto.
Obi-Rakhmat Grotto
Cave
Photo: Kenjayev Jaloliddin, CC0.
The Obi-Rakhmat Grotto is a Middle Paleolithic prehistoric site that yielded Neanderthal fossils. It is a shallow karst cave near the junction of the Chatkal and Pskem Rivers at the southwestern end of the Talassky Alatau Range in the Tien Shan Mountains, 100 km northeast of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brichmulla.
Brichmulla
Village
Burchmullo is an urban-type settlement in the northeast of Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan. It is part of Boʻstonliq District. Its population is 4,100. It lies by the Koksu River near its inflow into the Charvak Reservoir by the southwestern extremity of the Koksu Ridge, west Tian Shan. Brichmulla is situated 6 km north of Chatkal.
Chatkal
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Chatkal” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Chatkal”
- Azerbaijani: “Çatkal”
- Bulgarian: “Чаткал”
- Cebuano: “Chatkal”
- Chinese: “恰特卡爾河”
- Czech: “Čatkal”
- Czech: “Karakuldža”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تشاتكال”
- Finnish: “Tšatkal”
- French: “Tchatkal”
- German: “Chatkal”
- German: “Tschatkal”
- Irish: “Abhainn Chatkal”
- Japanese: “チャトカル川”
- Kirghiz: “Чаткал”
- Lithuanian: “Čatkalas”
- Persian: “چاتکال”
- Persian: “چتکل”
- Polish: “Czatkał”
- Russian: “Чаткал”
- Ukrainian: “Чаткал”
- Uzbek: “Chatqol”
- Welsh: “Afon Chatkal”
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