The Delinya (; ) is a river in

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, a right tributary of the

Tompo The Tompo (; ) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, a right tributary of the Aldan (river), Aldan, part of the Lena (river), Lena basin. It has a length of and a drainage basin area of . River Tompo gives its name to the Tompo Di ...

, part of the

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/ Lena basin. It has a length of and a

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, ...

area of . The river flows across a desolate area of

. The nearest inhabited place is

Topolinoye Topolinoye () is a rural locality (a '' selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Tomponsky National Rural Okrug of the Tompo District in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located on the left bank of the Tompo River ...

, located by the banks of the

, to the south of its confluence with the Delinya.

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The name of both the river and the lake is derived from the Even ''Delinde'', meaning "big

taimen ''Hucho'' is a genus of large piscivorous salmonid fish known as taimens (from Finnish , 'trout', through ), and is closely related to Pacific trout and lenoks (all belonging to the same tribe in the subfamily Salmoninae). Native to the cold ...

Course

The Delinya originates in an area of high-altitude lakes of the

Elgi Plateau The Elgi Plateau (;Soviet General Topographic Maps P-54-V,VI ) is a plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russian Federation. The area is named after the Elgi River, a left tributary of the Indigirka. Formerly there was th ...

. It has its sources very close to lake Delinya, with an area of , and flows across it. The river heads roughly westwards across the mountain area and then it bends southwestwards and flows southwards with the Khunkhadin Range to the west. Finally if meets the right bank of the

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Tributaries

The main tributaries of the Delinya are the long Singyami on the left, as well as the long Noluchu and the long Imnekan on the right. The river is fed by snow and rain. It freezes before mid October and stays frozen until the second half of May. There are 860 lakes in the river basin.

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2017. Дороги Арктики. Зимник «Яна - Drive2 (Winter road along the Delinya riverbed)
Rivers of the Sakha Republic Tomponsky District

Course

Tributaries

See also

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