Arga-Sala
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The Arga-Sala (; , Arğaa Salaa) is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic) and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is the largest tributary of the Olenyok with a length of . Its drainage basin area is . The river basin is a lonely, desolate area devoid of settlements.
Key facts
- River.name
- Arga-Sala
- River.other_name
- Арга-Сала / Арҕаа Салаа
- River.image
- Olenyok 2019-08-10-23 59 Sentinel-2 L2A.jpg
- River.image_caption
- Confluence of the Arga-Sala and the Olenyok Sentinel-2 image.
- River.source1_location
- Central Siberian Plateau
- River.mouth
- Olenyok
- River.progression
- Olenyok→Laptev Sea
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia
- River.pushpin_map
- Russia Sakha Republic#Russia
- River.pushpin_map_caption
- Mouth location in Yakutia, Russia
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Course
- Tributaries
- Flora and fauna
- See also
- References
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The Arga-Sala (; , Arğaa Salaa) is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic) and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is the largest tributary of the Olenyok with a length of . Its drainage basin area is . The river basin is a lonely, desolate area devoid of settlements.
The name of the river comes from the Yakut language "argaa/salaa" (Арҕаа/Салаа), meaning "western tributary".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arga-Sala” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
4 mapped locations