Lake Chukchagir (; Nanai: Дятигна-Хэван, ''Dytigna-Khevan'')Water of Russia - Чукчагирское озеро
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. It has an area of and a maximum depth of . There are no permanent settlements on the shores of the lake.

Geography

The lake is located in the Nimelen-Chukchagir lowland,

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, part of the basin of river

Amgun The Amgun () is a river in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia that flows northeast and joins the river Amur from the left, 146 km upstream from its outflow into sea. The length of the river is . The area of its basin is . The Amgun is formed by the co ...

and its tributary

Nimelen The Nimelen (russian: Нимелен) is a river in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is the longest tributary of the Amgun, with a length of and a drainage basin area of .

. The Amgun flows to the west of the lake and beyong it rises the

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. Godbanki and Dzhalu are two large islands in the lake. Godbanki, the largest, is almost attached to the mainland in the northern shore, separated from it by a narrow sound. The inflow of the lake are 48 small streams or rivulets. Strongly

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river Oldzhikan (Holgin), a right tributary of the

, is the outflow of the lake.Topographic map N-53; M 1: 1,000,00
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peat bog A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, and muskeg; a ...

s and residual

thermokarst Thermokarst is a type of terrain characterised by very irregular surfaces of marshy hollows and small hummocks formed as ice-rich permafrost thaws. The land surface type occurs in Arctic areas, and on a smaller scale in mountainous areas such as ...

lakes in the lake area. In years of heavy rainfall the level of neighboring Amgun river may rise and overflow its banks, reaching lake Chukchagir. The lake freezes between late October and early November, staying under ice until May.

Fauna and flora

The banks of the lake are wooded and about two thirds of the shoreline is swampy, especially in the northern and northwestern part. Lake Chukchagirskoe is rich in fish.

Lenok Lenoks, otherwise known as Asiatic trout or Manchurian trout,James Card: Fly fishing in South Korea.' Retrieved 22 June 2015. are salmonid fish of the genus ''Brachymystax'', native to rivers and lakes in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, wider Siberia (incl ...

, chebak,

pike Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to: Fish * Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct color morph of the yellow walleye ''Sander vitreus'' * Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes * ''Esox'', genus of ...

catfish Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish. Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from the three largest species alive, ...

and

crucian carp The crucian carp (''Carassius carassius'') is a medium-sized member of the common carp family Cyprinidae. It occurs widely in northern European regions. Its name derives from the Low German ''karusse'' or ''karutze'', possibly from Medieval Lat ...

are among the fish species found in the waters of the lake.

Salmon Salmon () is the common name for several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae, which are native to tributary, tributaries of the ...

may enter from neighboring river Amgun.

References

External links

* Chukchagir {{KhabarovskKrai-geo-stub

Geography

Fauna and flora

See also

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