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Chilik

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Chilik 

(also Shilik; in the upper course, Dzhangyryk), a river in Alma-Ata Oblast, Kazakh SSR; a left tributary of the Hi River. The Chilik is 245 km long and drains an area of 4,980 sq km. It rises on the southern slopes of the Transili Alatau and subsequently enters the Hi Basin, where it branches into the Kur-Chi-lik and Ul’khun-Chilik. The Chilik empties into the Kapchagai Reservoir. It is fed by glaciers and by snow. The mean flow rate 63 km from the mouth is 32.2 cu m per sec. The Chilik is used for irrigation.



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The rocket sensor will create a virtual ellipse (of the predicted impact zone) and all phones in that area will receive a warning," the Jerusalem Post quoted Chilik Soffer, a senior official at the Israeli Home Front Command, as saying.
Ethnographic accounts suggest that these upland mountain valleys were used for the summer pasturing of sheep, goats, cattle, and horses from the lowland areas of Talgar, Issyk, or Chilik or for the winter pasturing of herd animals by transhumant herdsmen migrating from the higher elevations of the Inner Tian Shan Mountains (3500 to 3000 metres) to lower elevations.
One of the zapovedniks, Sara Chilik, had some signs of wolves, deer, and wild boar, but the official wildlife counts indicated that the numbers of all were lower than they had been a decade earlier, prior to independence.
 
 
 
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