The Tumara (russian: Тумара; sah, Тумара) is a river in the Sakha Republic (

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, a right tributary of the

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, part of the

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basin. It flows across an area that is largely desolate, except for Segyan-Kyuyol village. Google Earth The Tumara has a length of and a drainage basin area of . The river is a destination for

rafting Rafting and whitewater rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water. This is often done on whitewater or different degrees of rough water. Dealing with risk is often a ...

. The name of the river comes from the

Yakut language Yakut , also known as Yakutian, Sakha, Saqa or Saxa ( sah, саха тыла), is a Turkic language spoken by around 450,000 native speakers, primarily the ethnic Yakuts and one of the official languages of Sakha (Yakutia), a federal republic ...

''tumara'', meaning "

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".Murzaev EM, ''Turkic place names'' / Baskakov NA . - Moscow: Eastern Literature RAS, 1996 .-- P. 149 .-- 254 p. - 500 copies. - ISBN 5-02-016806-8 .

Course

The Tumara originates in the slopes of the southwestern

Verkhoyansk Range The Verkhoyansk Range (russian: Верхоянский хребет, ''Verkhojanskiy Khrebet''; sah, Үөһээ Дьааҥы сис хайата, ''Üöhee Chaangy sis khaĭata'') is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Russia near the settle ...

. In the upper section of its course the river displays all the characteristics of a mountain river, flowing roughly southwards within a deep and narrow valley bound by steep slopes that cuts across the

Kelter The Kelter Range (russian: Кельтерский Хребет; sah, Кэлтэр сис) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Sakha Republic, Russian Federation. The area of the range is ...

(Көлтөр) and

Munni The Munni (russian: Мунни; sah, Мунньи, ''Munñi'') is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, a right tributary of the Belyanka, of the Lena basin. It has a length of and a drainage basin area of . There are no settlemen ...

(Мунний) ranges. After leaving the mountainous area in its middle course the Tumara flows through a

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 ...

and forms

meander A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex ba ...

s, still following a generally southward direction. In its lower course the river expands and the floodplain becomes wider, its riverbed dividing into slowly-flowing arms. Finally the Tumara meets the right bank of the Aldan River, a little upstream from Batamay and downstream from river Kele.1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet C-6
/ref> Its longest tributaries are the long Nuora (right) and the long Nyorkyunde.Tumara - Water of Russia
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References

Rivers of the Sakha Republic Verkhoyansk Range Central Yakutian Lowland {{Russia-river-stub

Course

See also

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