Sulitsa River

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Sölçä, Sulitsa River
Origin Maydan, Verkhneuslonsky District, Volga Upland, Tatarstan, Russia
Mouth Kuybyshev Reservoir, Sviyaga River,near Sviyazhsk, Tatarstan
Basin countries Tatarstan, Russia
Length 47 km
Mouth elevation 53
Basin area 517 km²

The Sulitsa (Russian: Сули́ца, Tatar Cyrillic: Сөлчә, Latin: Sölçä) is a river in Tatarstan, Russian Federation, a right-bank tributary of the Sviyaga River. It's length is 47 km and its drainage basin is 517 sq km. It origins 3 km west of Maydan village of the Verkhneuslonsky District and falls to the Kuybyshev Reservoir south of Sviyazhsk. Major tributaries are Changara, Mamatkozino, Klyancheyka. The maximal mineralization 500-700 mg/l. Average sediment in mouth per year is 113 mm. Drainage is regulated. Since 1978 it is protected as natural monument of Tatarstan.[1]

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  1. ^ (Tatar) "Сөлчә". Tatar Encyclopedia. (2002). Kazan: Tatarstan Republic Academy of Sciences Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia.