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Encyclopedia > Vakh River

The Vakh River (Вах in Russian) is a river in Khantia-Mansia (Tyumen Oblast) in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Ob River. The Vakh River is 964 km long, the area of its basin is 76,700 sq km. It begins at the watershed of the basin of the Ob, Yenisei and Taz. The Vakh River's main tributaries are Kulynigol, Sabun, Kolikyegan, Bolshoy Megtygyegan. The Murray River in Australia. ... Khantia-Mansia, or Yugra is an autonomous district of Tyumen Oblast in the Russian Federation. ... Categories: Russia geography stubs | Oblasts of Russia ... A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ... Обь Length - measured from the river-head of the Katun - 3650 km - measured from the river-head of the Irtysh - 5410 km Elevation of the source  ? m Average discharge 12,500 m³/s Area watershed 2,930,000 km² Origin  Altai Krai Mouth  Karskoe Sea Basin countries Russia This article is... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Basin has several meanings: Look up basin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... A watershed is a region of land where water drains downhill into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, ocean or wetland. ... The Yenisei (Енисе́й) is the greatest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, slightly shorter but with 1. ... The river Taz is located in western Siberia and has a length of 1401 km (871 miles). ...



 

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