The Suolama (russian: Суолема, ''Suolema''; sah, Суолама) is a river in

Krasnoyarsk Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai ( rus, Красноя́рский край, r=Krasnoyarskiy kray, p=krəsnɐˈjarskʲɪj ˈkraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in ...

and

Yakutia Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far ...

(Sakha Republic),

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...

. It is a

tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainag ...

of the

Anabar Anabar may refer to: * Anabar Bay, Laptev Sea * Anabar Constituency, Nauru * Anabar District, Nauru * Anabar District, Russia, Sakha, Russia * Anabar Highway, Russia * Anabar Plateau, Russia * Anabar (river), Sakha, Russia * Anabar Shield Anaba ...

with a length of . Its drainage basin area is . The river flows north of the Arctic Circle, from the

Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District (russian: Таймы́рский Долга́но-Не́нецкий райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #2-54 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia ...

eastwards into the northwestern limit of coastal Yakutia. It is an area of

permafrost Permafrost is ground that continuously remains below 0 °C (32 °F) for two or more years, located on land or under the ocean. Most common in the Northern Hemisphere, around 15% of the Northern Hemisphere or 11% of the global surfac ...

, flat, lonely and desolate, devoid of settlements. The nearest inhabited place is

Yuryung-Khaya Yuryung-Khaya (russian: Юрюнг-Хая, sah, Үрүҥ Хайа ''Ürüŋ xaya'') is a rural locality (a '' selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Yuryung-Khainsky National (Dolgan) Rural Okrug of Anabarsky Dis ...

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The Suolama is a left tributary of the Anabar. Its sources are in the southeastern corner of fairly large Kieng-Kyuel lake of the

North Siberian Lowland The North Siberian Lowland (russian: Северо-Сибирская низменность; sah, Хотугу Сибиир намтала), also known as Taymyr Lowland (Таймырская низменность), is a plain with a relatively ...

. It heads roughly eastwards / northeastwards all along its course within a swampy area with numerous lakes. Finally it joins the left bank of the

only from its mouth. The confluence is just a little upstream of

Anabar Bay Anabar Bay ( rus, Анабарский залив, r=Anabarskiy Zaliv; sah, Анаабыр хомото, translit=Anaabır Qomoto) is a gulf in the Laptev Sea. Lat 74° 30' and long 113° 15'. It stretches between the eastern cape off the mouth o ...

. Google Earth The river is fed by rain and snow. Owing to the severe climate it is frozen between late September and early June. The longest tributaries are the long Lastik (Ластик) and the long Poperechnaya (Поперечная) from the right.Суолама - Nature.ykt
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Schematic map of ancient terrains and kimberlitic fields in the Siberian craton
{{Portal bar, Russia Rivers of the Sakha Republic North Siberian Lowland

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