[1] Georgia has about 25,000 rivers, many of which power small hydroelectric stations.
The largest river is the Kura River, which flows 1,364 km from northeast Turkey across the plains of eastern Georgia, through the capital, Tbilisi, and into the Caspian Sea.
Soviet engineers turned the river lowlands along the Black Sea coast into prime subtropical agricultural land, embanked and straightened many stretches of river, and built an extensive system of canals.
Deep mountain gorges form topographical belts within the Greater Caucasus.
[2] The following table lists significant rivers that flow through Georgia.