The Inya ( rus, Иня) is a river in
Okhotsky District
Okhotsky District (russian: Охо́тский райо́н) is an administrativeResolution #143-pr and municipalLaw #194 district (raion), one of the seventeen in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the north of the krai. The area of the d ...
,
Khabarovsk Krai,
Russian Far East
The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admin ...
. It has a
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where 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 and a length of .
[1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet D-8]
/ref> The river is a tourist destination for rafting
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and kayaking.
The basin of the Inya is a spawning ground for salmon
Salmon () is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae, which are native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (genus ''Salmo'') and North Pacific (genus '' Oncorhy ...
. Other fish species are also abundant in its waters, as well as crab fisheries near the mouth.[
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Course
The Inya river has its source at an elevation of in the Khel-Degi (Хэл-Дэги) lake, part of a lake system of the eastern end of the Suntar-Khayata
Suntar-Khayata Range (russian: Сунтар-Хаята, sah, Сунтаар Хайата) is a granite mountain range rising along the border of the Sakha Republic in the north with Amur Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai in the south.
The R504 Kolyma ...
range.[Inya - Water of Russia]
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The Inya flows roughly southwards across mountainous terrain with waterfalls and rapids in an area of mountain tundra
Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees because it is at high elevation, with an associated harsh climate. As the latitude of a location approaches the poles, the threshold elevation for alpine tundra gets ...
. The Kheidzhan Range on the left side of its valley separates it from the Taui
The Taui ( rus, Тауй), also known as Kava ( rus, Кава) part of its course, is a river in Khabarovsk Krai and Magadan Oblast, Russian Far East. It has a drainage basin of .
The river is a spawning ground for salmon and is part of the Ma ...
(Kava) basin in the east. In its last stretch the river expands and fans out in many arms through a widening floodplain
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.Goudi ...
parallel to the Ulbeya to the west. Finally it flows into the Sea of Okhotsk by the Novaya Inya settlement. There are no other inhabited places near the river.[ Google Earth]
See also
*List of rivers of Russia
Russia can be divided into a European and an Asian part. The dividing line is generally considered to be the Ural Mountains. The European part is drained into the Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Black Sea, and Caspian Sea. The Asian part is drain ...
References
External links
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Inya River Watershed - Wild Salmon Center - Yumpu
Rivers of Khabarovsk Krai
Drainage basins of the Sea of Okhotsk
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