The Tigrovaya (russian: Тигровая, means: "Tiger's river", formerly Сица ''Sitsa'')
Словарь названий гидрографических объектов России и других стран — членов СНГ
Federal Service for Geodesy and Cartography of Russia, 1999, p. 373 is a river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...
in South part of Primorsky Krai
Primorsky Krai (russian: Приморский край, r=Primorsky kray, p=prʲɪˈmorskʲɪj kraj), informally known as Primorye (, ), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of the ...
, a right 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 drainage ...
of the Partizanskaya. Its length is , and its drainage basin covers .Sikhote-Alin
The Sikhote-Alin (russian: Сихотэ́-Али́нь, , , ) is a mountain range in Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krais, Russia, extending about to the northeast of the Russian Pacific seaport of Vladivostok. The highest summits are Tordoki Yani at ...
) and flows into the Partizanskaya.
A former name of the river is ''Sitsa'' or ''Xica'', which means "western tributary" in Chinese. The name change occurred in 1972.
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Rivers of Primorsky Krai
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