The Birekte (russian: Биректе; sah, Билэктэ) is a river in
Yakutia
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far ...
(Sakha Republic),
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...
. It is a
tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainag ...
of the
Olenyok Olenyok or Olenek may refer to:
* Olenyok (river), a river in Russia
* Olenyok (rural locality), a rural locality (a ''selo'') in the Sakha Republic, Russia
*Olenyok Airport, an airport in the same rural locality
*Olenyok Gulf
The Olenyok Gulf, a ...
with a length of . Its drainage basin area is .
The river flows north of the
Arctic Circle, across a lonely, desolate area devoid of settlements.
Course
The Birekte is a left tributary of the Olenyok. Its sources are in the northern fringes of the
Central Siberian Plateau
The Central Siberian Plateau (russian: Среднесибирское плоскогорье, Srednesibirskoye ploskogorye; sah, Орто Сибиир хаптал хайалаах сирэ) is a vast mountainous area in Siberia, one of the Grea ...
. It heads first southwards and, after the confluence of the Omonos, it flows roughly northeastwards. Finally it joins the left bank of the
Olenyok Olenyok or Olenek may refer to:
* Olenyok (river), a river in Russia
* Olenyok (rural locality), a rural locality (a ''selo'') in the Sakha Republic, Russia
*Olenyok Airport, an airport in the same rural locality
*Olenyok Gulf
The Olenyok Gulf, a ...
river downstream from the confluence of the
Ukukit, upstream of its mouth.
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The river is fed by rain and snow. It is frozen between early October and late May. The longest tributary is the long Omonos (Омоноос) from the right.
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Birekte Terrane
The Birekte terrane
In geology, a terrane (; in full, a tectonostratigraphic terrane) is a crust fragment formed on a tectonic plate (or broken off from it) and accreted or " sutured" to crust lying on another plate. The crustal block or fragment preserves its ow ...
is located by the Anabar Shield, in the north-eastern part of the Siberian Craton, in the basins of the Popigay, Anabar, Birekte and Olenyok Olenyok or Olenek may refer to:
* Olenyok (river), a river in Russia
* Olenyok (rural locality), a rural locality (a ''selo'') in the Sakha Republic, Russia
*Olenyok Airport, an airport in the same rural locality
*Olenyok Gulf
The Olenyok Gulf, a ...
rivers. It is defined entirely from geophysical data and is overlain by Riphean-Paleozoic platformal cover.[Wladyslaw Altermann, Patricia Corcoran (eds.) ''Precambrian Sedimentary Environments: A Modern Approach to Ancient Depositional Systems'', p. 276]
See also
*List of rivers of Russia
Russia can be divided into a European Russia, European and an North Asia, Asian part. The dividing line is generally considered to be the Ural Mountains. The European part is drained into the Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Black Sea, and Caspian Sea. Th ...
References
External links
Schematic map of ancient terrains and kimberlitic fields in the Siberian craton
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Rivers of the Sakha Republic
Tributaries of the Olenyok