Kyzyl Suu River

The Kyzyl Suu River is a Central Asian river and one of Tajikistan's major rivers. It flows into the Amu Darya River as a tributary. The river travels through the Pamirs, often restricting its flow to tiny channels and steep gorges due to the rocky terrain.

The Kyzyl Suu River is fed by some of Tajikistan's greatest glaciers, including the Fedchenko and Abramov glaciers (the former being the world's longest glacier outside of the polar regions). The Muksu and the Obikhingou are its two major tributaries; the Kyzyl Suu River proper originates near the junction of the Obikhingou and Surkhob rivers.

The Kyzyl Suu River flows across the rich plains of southwest Tajikistan after leaving the Pamirs. It comes to an end when it merges with the Panj to form the Amu Darya on the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border. At the confluence of this river and the Panj, the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve, which was the final home of the now-extinct Caspian tiger in the former USSR, is located.

Length: 128 km