The Kuranakh-Yuryakh ( or Кураанах-Юрэх; , ''Kuraanax Ürex'') is a river in
Sakha Republic
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(Yakutia),
Russia
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. It is one of the major tributaries of the
Omoloy. The river has a length of — together with the Nyolu— and a
drainage basin
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area of . The lower stretch of its course is also known as Altan.
The Kuranakh-Yuryakh flows north of the
Arctic Circle
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, across desolate
tundra
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territories of the
East Siberian Lowland
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and
Bulunsky districts.
Course
The Kuranakh-Yuryakh is a left
tributary
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of the Omoloy. It has its sources in the eastern slopes of the
Orulgan Range of the
Verkhoyansk Range
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The range lies just west o ...
system. The river flows roughly northeastwards across mountainous terrain, bound in the east by the
Sietinden Range
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East Siberian Lowland
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. Finally the Kuranakh-Yuryakh joins the left bank of the Omoloy from its mouth. The confluence is upstream of the mouth of the
Arga-Yuryakh. The nearest inhabited place is
Namy, located upstream from its mouth in the Omoloy.
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Tributaries
The main tributaries of the Kuranakh-Yuryakh are the long Nyolu and the
Seimchan on the right, as well as the long Kuobakhchan and the long Ystannakh on the left. The river is frozen between early October and early June. There are more than thousand lakes in its basin.
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See also
*Braided river
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*List of rivers of Russia
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References
External links
Fishing & Tourism in Yakutia
Tributaries of the Omoloy
Rivers of the Sakha Republic
Verkhoyansk Range
East Siberian Lowland
Braided rivers in Russia
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