What is "chkhorotsqu"

Chkhorotsqu (, literally meaning in Mingrelian “nine springs”) is a townlet in western Georgia, located in the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti and functioning as the administrative center of the homonymous district. Its population was 5,900 as of 2007 (including over 1,500 IDPs from breakaway Abkhazia).