Siligir
Sign in to saveThe Siligir (; ) is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is the largest right tributary of the Olenyok with a length of — long counting the Orto-Siligir stretch of its upper course. Its drainage basin area is .
Key facts
- River.name
- Siligir
- River.other_name
- Силигир
- River.image
- Olenyok-1 2019-08-10-23 59 Sentinel-2 L2A.jpg
- River.image_caption
- Sentinel-2 picture of the confluence of the Olenyok with the Siligir.
- River.source1_location
- Central Siberian Plateau
- River.mouth
- Olenyok
- River.progression
- Olenyok→Laptev Sea
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia
- River.length
- ()
- River.pushpin_map
- Russia Sakha Republic#Russia
- River.pushpin_map_caption
- Mouth location in Yakutia, Russia
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Wikidata facts
- Length
- 220
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- watershed area
- 13400
- discharge
- 70.0
- Commons category
- Siligir River
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The Siligir (; ) is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is the largest right tributary of the Olenyok with a length of — long counting the Orto-Siligir stretch of its upper course. Its drainage basin area is .
The river flows just north of the Arctic Circle across a lonely, desolate area of Olenyoksky District devoid of settlements. There are very large bitumen deposits along the Siligir basin.
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Russia
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geographic coordinate system
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Sakha
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Yakut
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drainage basin
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Laptev Sea
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Arctic Circle
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tributary
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Alexander Prokhorov
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river mouth
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bitumen
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Central Siberian Plateau
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Perca
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Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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Esox
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Olenyok
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Coregonus
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oil sands
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graylings
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