Künes River
| Künes Kunges | |
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Location of the Künes River in the Lake Balkash drainage basin | |
| Native name | |
| Location | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region |
| County | Kunes, Nilka County, and Hejing County |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Eren Habirga Mountains |
| • coordinates | 43°12′35″N 84°50′51″E / 43.20972°N 84.84750°E |
| • elevation | 3300 m |
| Mouth | Ili |
• location | Confluence with the river Tekes |
• coordinates | 43°34′45″N 82°32′51″E / 43.57917°N 82.54750°E |
• elevation | 786 m |
| Length | 258 km |
| Basin size | 3532 km2 |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Ili→ Lake Balkhash |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Tsanma (Tsauman gol) |
| • right | Arshan, Merke (Borgustaya), Ken-su (Naryn gol, Kharkhan), Bokchurgan gol, Turgen |
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View of the Künes River at Nalati | |||||||||||
| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | دەرياسى كۈنەس | ||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鞏乃斯河 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 巩乃斯河 | ||||||||||
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The Künes River (Uyghur: دەرياسى كۈنەس, Künəs Dəryasi), generally known in English as the Kunges River (Russian: Кунгес; Chinese: 巩乃斯河, Gǒngnǎisī Hé), is—with the Tekes River—one of the two main tributaries that form the Ili River in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It originates in the eastern Tian Shan.