page_title: Boom Gorge
hierarchical_section_title: Boom Gorge
caption_attribution_description: English: The Chu River, around the area where it leaves the Boom Gorge and enters the wider Chuy Valley. Seen from the Bishkek-Tokmak-Kemin-Balykchy highway.
context_page_description: Boom Gorge is an antecedent gorge in Chuy Province and Issyk-Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan.
  The gorge cuts, in a general north-south direction, across one of Tian Shan's mountain range systems. The range east of the gorge is known as Kyungey Ala-Too, the one to the west is the Kyrgyz Ala-Too.
  The Chu River passes northwards through it and then enters the wider Chuy Valley. The Bishkek-Tokmak-Kemin-Balykchy highway passes through the gorge, as does the railway from Bishkek to Balykchy.
context_section_description: Boom Gorge ('shoestring gorge', Kyrgyz: Боом капчыгайы, Russian: Боо́мское уще́лье) is an antecedent gorge in Chuy Province and Issyk-Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan.
  The gorge cuts, in a general north-south direction, across one of Tian Shan's mountain range systems. The range east of the gorge is known as Kyungey Ala-Too (Russian: Кюнгей Ала-Тоо, based on similar Kyrgyz spelling), the one to the west is the Kyrgyz Ala-Too (Russian: Кирги́зский хребе́т).
  The Chu River passes northwards through it and then enters the wider Chuy Valley. The Bishkek-Tokmak-Kemin-Balykchy highway (A365) passes through the gorge, as does the railway from Bishkek to Balykchy.
caption: Boom Gorge
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