Kosa River
Encyclopedia
Kosa River is a river
in Perm Krai
, Russia
, right tributary of the Kama River
. The length of the river is 267 km, the area of its basin
is 10,300 km². The Kosa River freezes up in late October - November and stays icebound until April - early May.
It starts in extreme south of Kosinsky District
and flows in north. Mouth of river located near village Ust-Kosa. Banks are lowland. There are swamp Ydzhidnyur in the basin of Kosa.
Main tributaries:
words ‘kös’ (dry) and ‘va’ (water), that can be translated as ‘dry water’. Komi-Permyak people call the river ‘Kösva’.
River
A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...
in Perm Krai
Perm Krai
Perm Krai is a federal subject of Russia that came into existence on December 1, 2005 as a result of the 2004 referendum on the merger of Perm Oblast and Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug. The city of Perm became the administrative center of the new federal subject...
, Russia
Russia
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, right tributary of the Kama River
Kama River
Kama is a major river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga and the largest one in discharge; in fact, it is larger than the Volga before junction....
. The length of the river is 267 km, the area of its 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 10,300 km². The Kosa River freezes up in late October - November and stays icebound until April - early May.
It starts in extreme south of Kosinsky District
Kosinsky District
Kosinsky District is an administrative district of Komi-Permyak Okrug of Perm Krai, Russia; one of the thirty-three in the krai. Municipally, it is incorporated as Kosinsky Municipal District. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality of Kosa...
and flows in north. Mouth of river located near village Ust-Kosa. Banks are lowland. There are swamp Ydzhidnyur in the basin of Kosa.
Main tributaries:
- Left: Yancher, Sepol, Onolva, Lolog, Odan, Sym
- Right: Yum, Lopva, Lopan, Lolym, Siya, Bulach.
Etymology
Name of the river is composition of Komi-PermyakKomi-Permyak language
Komi-Permyak language is one of two regional varieties of the pluricentrical Komi language, the other variety being Komi-Zyrian.Komi is a Uralic language closely related to Udmurt....
words ‘kös’ (dry) and ‘va’ (water), that can be translated as ‘dry water’. Komi-Permyak people call the river ‘Kösva’.