Vakunayka
Sign in to saveThe 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 .
Key facts
- River.name
- Vakunayka
- River.other_name
- Вакунайка
- River.image
- Vakunayka 2019-08-29-23 59 Sentinel-2 L2A.jpg
- River.image_caption
- Confluence of the Chona and the Vakunayka Sentinel-2 image
- River.pushpin_map
- Russia Sakha Republic#Russia Irkutsk Oblast
- River.pushpin_map_caption
- Mouth location in Yakutia, Russia
- River.source1_location
- Central Siberian Plateau
- River.mouth
- Chona
- River.progression
- Chona →
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Katangsky District, Irkutsk OblastMirninsky District, Yakutia
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Russia
- Continent
- Asia
- Length
- 362
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- mouth of the watercourse
- Chona
- watershed area
- 10100
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- Vakunayka River
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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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