The Sitte (russian: Ситте; sah, Сииттэ, ''Siitte'') is a river in
Yakutia
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(Sakha Republic),
Russia
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. It is a left
tributary
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of the
Lena
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with a length of . Its drainage basin area is .
The name of the river is based on the
Yakut word ''"satyy"'' (сатыы), meaning "low".
Course
The Sitte has its sources in a marshy area near Kiriyestyakh, at the northern edge of the
Lena Plateau
The Lena Plateau, also known as Prilensky Plateau ( rus, Приленское плато, ''Prilenskoye Plato''; sah, Өлүөнэтээҕи хаптал хайалаах сир), is one of the great plateaus of Siberia. Administratively it is m ...
. It soon leaves the plateau area and flows across the
Central Yakutian Lowland
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in a roughly northern direction. The river forms
meander
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s as it heads north within a
floodplain
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with
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s and small
thermokarst
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lakes to the east of the
Tyugyuene
The Tyugyuene (russian: Тюгюэне or Тюгене; sah, Түгүөнэ, ''Tügüöne'') is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is a tributary of the Lena with a length of and a drainage basin area of . The river marks the borde ...
and west of the
Khanchaly
The Khanchaly (russian: Ханчалы; sah, Ханчылы, ''Xançılı'') is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is a left tributary of the Lena with a length of . Its drainage basin area is .
The river flows across the Gorny, ...
. Close to the final stretch of its course the Sitte enters the Lena floodplain, dotted with a multitude of larger lakes and marshes. Finally it meets an arm of the left bank of the Lena, from its mouth.
The Sitte river is fed by rain and snow. Floods are common in the spring, but the rest of the warm season its channel is shallow and it may dry in stretches. Parts of the upper course are often encumbered by logs and fallen trees.
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The river basin is largely uninhabited territory, except for Bes-Kyuyel, a small
Yakut settlement. There is a gas pipeline that crosses the Sitte about from the border between
Gorny and
Kobyaysky District
Kobyaysky District (russian: Кобяйский улу́с; sah, Кэбээйи улууһа, ''Kebeeyi uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus ...
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Tributaries
The Sitte has eighteen tributaries that are over in length. The largest one is the long Dyuktyuene ( sah, Дьүктүөнэ) from the left. The river freezes between the second half of October and mid May.[Глушков А.В: ''Реки востока России.'' Якутск](_blank)
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Flora and fauna
The vegetation of the Sitte basin is mainly spruce
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and larch
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taiga
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. There are also birch
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forests in some areas of the Sitte's lower course.[ The basin is prone to ]forest fire
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s in some years.Sakhamedia - Ученый-биолог: Многие думают, что там, где был лесной пожар, не могут обитать животные
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The main fish species are 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 ...
, perch
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and common roach, among others. Elk, wild reindeer, roe deer, wolf, hare, sable, muskrat and many other animals are common in the Tugyuene basin.[
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See also
*List of rivers of Russia
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References
External links
Fishing in the Sitte
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Rivers of the Sakha Republic
Central Yakutian Lowland