Ileksa
Sign in to saveThe Ileksa () is a river in Onezhsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast and Pudozhsky District of the Republic of Karelia in Russia. It is the principal tributary of Lake Vodlozero, and thus belongs to the basins of Lake Onega and of the Baltic Sea. It is long, and the area of its basin . The main tributary of the Ileksa is the Chusreka (left).
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- River.name
- Ileksa
- River.mouth
- Lake Vodlozero
- River.progression
- Lake Vodlozero→ Vama→ Vodla→
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia
- River.length_km
- 155
- River.discharge1_avg
- —
- River.basin_size_km2
- 3950
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- mouth of the watercourse
- Vodlozero
- watershed area
- 3950
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The Ileksa () is a river in Onezhsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast and Pudozhsky District of the Republic of Karelia in Russia. It is the principal tributary of Lake Vodlozero, and thus belongs to the basins of Lake Onega and of the Baltic Sea. It is long, and the area of its basin . The main tributary of the Ileksa is the Chusreka (left).
Ileksa is part of major waterway, which starts as the Verkhnyaya, which is a tributary of Lake Kalgachinskoye, and continues as the Vodla (which flows out of Lake Vodlozero) to Lake Onega, further as the Svir to Lake Ladoga, and further as the Neva to the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. The Ileksa connects lakes Kalgachinskoye and Vodlozero. The course of the river passes a number of lakes, the biggest of which are , Lake Ik, and Lake Luzskoye, all located in Arkhangelsk Oblast close to the border with Karelia. There are many rapids on the Ileksa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ileksa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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