Khemchik River is a river in Tuva

Tuva

The Tyva Republic , or Tuva , is a federal subject of Russia . It lies in the geographical center of Asia, in southern Siberia. The republic borders with the Altai Republic, the Republic of Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, and the Republic of Buryatia in Russia and with Mongolia to the...

 in Russia

Russia

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, a left tributary of the Yenisey River. The length of the river is 320 km, the area of its drainage basin

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

 is 27,000 km². The Khemchik freezes up in November and remains icebound until late April - early May. Its main tributaries are the Alash, Ak-Sug, Barlyk, and Chadan Rivers. A town of Ak-Dovurak

Ak-Dovurak

Ak-Dovurak is a town in the Tuva Republic, Russia, located on the Khemchik River , west of Kyzyl. Population: It was founded in 1964 as a town housing the workers employed in construction of an asbestos plant....

is located on the Khemchik River.