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Elgi
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The Elgi (; ) is a river in Yakutia in Russia, a left tributary of the Indigirka. The Elgi Plateau is named after the Elgi River. The river's length is and its drainage basin .

Key facts

River.name
Elgi
River.other_name
Эльги / Эльгэ
River.image
Elgi 2019-07-14-23 59 Sentinel-2 L2A.jpg
River.image_caption
Confluence of the Elgi and the Indigirka Sentinel-2 image
River.source1
Degdega and Kao confluence
River.source1_elevation
ca
River.mouth
Indigirka
River.mouth_location
SW of Ust-Nera
River.subdivision_type1
Country
River.subdivision_name1
Russia
River.length_km
394
River.basin_size_km2
68200

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
river
Located in
Sakha
Continent
Asia
Elevation
564
Length
394
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Commons category
Elgi
discharge
106
mouth of the watercourse
Indigirka
watershed area
68200
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Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • Course
  • Tributaries
  • See also
  • References

The Elgi (; ) is a river in Yakutia in Russia, a left tributary of the Indigirka. The Elgi Plateau is named after the Elgi River. The river's length is and its drainage basin .

Teryut village is located close to the confluence of the Elgi and the Indigirka. Formerly there was a settlement called Elginsky on the left bank of the Elgi, about upstream from the confluence. It belonged to the Oymyakon District and was abolished in 2007.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elgi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map

4 mapped locations