River Terek
Description:
Te'rek is a river in the North Caucasus.
In the Karachay-Balkar language, “Terk Suu” means “fast, rapid water or river”. In ancient Georgian sources, this river is called Lomeki, which means “mountain water” in Chechen and Ingush.
It originates on the slope of the Main Caucasian ridge in the Trusov gorge, from the glacier of the Zilga-Khokh mountain at an altitude of 2,713 m above sea level. It flows through the territories of Georgia, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Stavropol Territory, Chechnya and Dagestan. The length of the river is 623 km, the area of the basin is 43,200 km².
