Karaunkiur

Karaunkiur

 

(also Tentiaksai), a river in Osh Oblast, Kirghiz SSR; right tributary of the Karadar’ia River (left compo-nent of the Syr Darya). Length, 126 km; basin area, 4, 130 sq km.It rises in spurs of the Fergana Range; in its lower reaches itflows through the Fergana Valley, where its waters are used forirrigation. The river is fed chiefly by melting snow. The averageannual discharge at the kishlak (village) of Charvak (78 km fromits mouth) is 29.6 cu m per sec.