The Khentei Range () is a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have aris ...

in the

Transbaikal Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia ( rus, Забайка́лье, r=Zabaykal'ye, p=zəbɐjˈkalʲjɪ), or Dauria (, ''Dauriya'') is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" (trans-) Lake Baikal at the south side of the eastern Si ...

Region (Zabaykalsky Krai) of

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. The range is part of the Trans-Baikal conifer forests

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. The Sokhondo Nature Reserve is located in the area of the range.

Geography

The Khentei Range is part of the

Khentei-Daur Highlands The Khentei-Daur Highlands, also known as the Khentei-Chikoi Highlands, are a mountainous area in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. Owing to a number of factors such as tectonic faults, Fracture (geology), rock fissuring, and density of river networks, ...

South Siberian System The South Siberian Mountains () are one of the largest mountain systems in North Asia. The total area of the system of mountain ranges is more than 1.5 million km². The South Siberian Mountains are located in the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal ...

. It rises on the right bank of the upper course of the

Ingoda River The Ingoda (; , ''Ingedei''; , ''Angida'') is a river in Zabaykalsky Krai of Russia. The river is long and the area of its basin is . Geography In its upper course it flows at the feet of the Khentei Range. Together with the Onon, it forms the ...

and stretches roughly northeastwards for over until the source of the Bylir River, where it joins with the

Stanovik Range The Stanovik () is a mountain range in the Transbaikal Region (Zabaykalsky Krai) of Siberia, Russia. The southern end of the range is very close to the border with Mongolia. The nearest village is Mordoy (Мордой), Kyrinsky District. The r ...

. The maximum width of the range is . Its southern spurs connect with the Onon-Baldzhin Range and in the west with the Pereval Range.

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The predominant summits of the Khentei Range reach between and . The highest point is high Mount Golets Sokhondo, a ‘’golets’’-type of mountain with a bald peak. Other important peaks are Buryktyn-Yang () and Uluri Golets (). The relief is marked by a strong degree of horizontal and vertical dissection with numerous faults.

Scree Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall. Landforms associated with these materials are often called talus deposits. The term ''scree'' is ap ...

slopes and

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s are common throughout the range. In some places there are traces of

Pleistocene glaciation The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary period that began 2.58 Ma (million years ago) and is ongoing. Although geologists describe ...

and lakes of glacial origin.

Flora

The slopes of the range are covered with mountain

taiga Taiga or tayga ( ; , ), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. The taiga, or boreal forest, is the world's largest land biome. In North A ...

and pre-Alpine forest. The higher elevations have

dwarf cedar ''Pinus sibirica'', or Siberian pine, in the family Pinaceae is a species of pine tree that occurs in Siberia from 58°E in the Ural Mountains east to 126°E in the Stanovoy Range in southern Sakha Republic, and from Igarka at 68°N in the lowe ...

shrub and are often crowned by ''"golets"'' type bare and largely rocky summits.

References

{{reflist Mountain ranges of Russia Khentei-Daur Highlands

Geography

Flora

See also

References