Editing Jetisu (section)

===Bodies of water===
[[Image:E8405-Bishkek-Almaty-hwy.jpg|thumb|In the hills between [[Bishkek]] and [[Almaty]]]]
The most important river is the [[Ili River|Ili]], which enters Jetisu from the Tian Shan mountains of China's [[Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture]] in northern [[Xinjiang]], and drains it for 250&nbsp;km before it enters Lake Balkhash. The [[Chu River]] also rises in the Tian Shan mountains and flows north-westwards through the former Akmolinsk province of the [[Governor-Generalship of the Steppes]].  The [[Naryn River]] flows south-westwards along a [[longitudinal valley]] of the Tian Shan, and enters the [[Fergana Valley]] to join the [[Syr Darya]].  The major lakes of the area include Lake Balkhas (or Denghiz) and Lake Ala Kul, which was connected with Balkash in the post-Pliocene period but now stands some hundred feet higher, connected by a chain of smaller lakes with Sissyk Kul, Lake [[Issyk-Kul]], and the alpine lakes of [[Son-Kul]] and [[Chatyr-Kul]].