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The Vakunayka (; ) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. It is a right hand tributary of the Chona, and is long, with a drainage basin of .

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River.name
Vakunayka
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Вакунайка
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Vakunayka 2019-08-29-23 59 Sentinel-2 L2A.jpg
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Confluence of the Chona and the Vakunayka Sentinel-2 image
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Russia Sakha Republic#Russia Irkutsk Oblast
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Mouth location in Yakutia, Russia
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Central Siberian Plateau
River.mouth
Chona
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Chona →
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Country
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Katangsky District, Irkutsk OblastMirninsky District, Yakutia

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The Vakunayka (; ) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. It is a right hand tributary of the Chona, and is long, with a drainage basin of .

There are no permanent settlements by the Vakunayka. The Russian Geographical Society organized an expedition in 1853–55 to survey the orography, geology and population of the Vilyuy and Chona basins.

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

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