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A large concrete-lined aryk at Milyanfan, Kyrgyzstan
This creek at Tamchy, Kyrgyzstan, has been artificially redirected to a new course, and is locally known as an aryk as well

An aryk (Turkic: arık; Russian: арык) is an (usually small) irrigation canal widely used throughout Central Asia, where in most areas agriculture is impossible without some measure of artificial irrigation.


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