The Ichvuveyem (,Словарь названий гидрографических объектов России и других стран — членов СНГ , Federal Service for Geodesy and Cartography of Russia, 1999, p. 152 also: Ичувеем ''Ichuveyem'') is a stream in Far East Siberia flowing in a roughly westward direction. Its valley marks the southern limit of the
Shelag Range
The Shelag Range, Shelag Ridge () is a range of mountains in far Russian Far East, North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Federal subjects of Russia, Russian Federation. The area of the ran ...
. The Ichvuveyem is long, and has 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, ...
of . It passes through the sparsely populated areas of the Siberian tundra and flows into the
East Siberian Sea
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at the
Chaunskaya Bay
The Chaunskaya Bay or Chaun Bay () is an Arctic bay in the East Siberian Sea, in Chaunsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Chukotka, northeast Siberia. There is Port of Pevek.
Geography
The bay is open to the north and is 140 km in leng ...
. Its mouth is in a low, marshy area to the NE of the mouth of the Chaun.
The Ichvuveyem and its basin belong to the
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
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administrative region of
Russia
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