The Badyarikha (; , ''Bacaariixa'') is a river in

Yakutia Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million ...

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, a right tributary of the

Indigirka The Indigirka (; ) is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia between the Yana to the west and the Kolyma to the east. It is long. The area of its basin is . History The isolated village of Russkoye Ustye, located on the delta of the Indigi ...

. The length of the Badyarikha is and the area of its

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...

is . Its sources are located on the northern slopes of the

Moma Range The Moma Range (, ''Momsky Khrebet''; ) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation.''Momsky Khrebet'' / Great Soviet Encyclopedia; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. ...

''Momsky Khrebet'' /

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; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov. 2004—2017. The Badyarikha flows on the eastern side of the

Aby Lowland The Aby Lowland (; ) is a low alluvial plain located in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Administratively most of the territory of the lowland is part of Aby District ''(Aby Ulus)''. Geography The lowland is crossed by ...

. Its main tributaries are the rivers Ogorokha, Orto-Tirekhtyakh, and Anty.

Paleontology

A diverse mammoth fauna, including a mummy of ''

Homotherium latidens ''Homotherium'' is an extinct genus of Homotherini, scimitar-toothed cat belonging to the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae that inhabited North America, Eurasia, and Africa, as well as possibly South America during the Pliocene and Pleistocene ...

'' cub, one of the few Eurasian records of this species from the

Upper Pleistocene The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division of the Pleistocene Epoch with ...

, was found in the Yedoma horizon at the Badyarikhskoe locality on this river.

References

Rivers of the Sakha Republic {{FarEast-Russia-river-stub