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Key facts
- Native name
- Бурея ( Russian )
- Country
- Russia
- Source
- Bureya Range
- Location
- Khabarovsk Krai
- Coordinates
- 51°39′45″N 134°16′54″E / 51.66250°N 134.28167°E / 51.66250; 134.28167
- Elevation
- 580 m (1,900 ft)
- Mouth
- Amur
- Length
- 623 km (387 mi)
- Basin size
- 70,700 km (27,300 sq mi)
- Average
- 940 m /s (33,000 cu ft/s)
- Maximum
- 18,100 m /s (640,000 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- Amur → Sea of Okhotsk
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Encyclopedic overview
The Bureya (Russian: Бурея) is a south-flowing, left tributary of the Amur river in Russia. It is 623 kilometres (387 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 70,700 square kilometres (27,300 sq mi). Its name comes from the Evenk word birija, meaning river.
Course
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bureya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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