The Ukelayat (russian: Укэлаят;
Koryak: Вуквылгаят) is a river in
Kamchatka Krai,
Russia
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. The length of the river is and the area of is
drainage basin
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.
The name of the river comes from the
Koryak ''"vukvylgayat"'' ''(Вуквылгаят)'', meaning "rock/fall".
Course
The Ukelayat has its source in the
Koryak Highlands
The Koryak Mountains or Koryak Highlands () are an area of mountain ranges in Far-Eastern Siberia, Russia, located in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and in Kamchatka Krai, with a small part in Magadan Oblast. The highest point in the system is the Mou ...
. It is fed by glaciers of the northern slopes of the adjoining ranges. It flows roughly eastwards within a valley bound by the
Pikas Range to the north and the
Ukelayat Range
The Ukelayat Range (russian: хребет Укэлаят) is a range of mountains in Kamchatka Krai, Russian Far East. The range is part of the Koryak Highland system and administratively it belongs to Olyutorsky District.Google Earth
The nam ...
to the south. The river
divides into channels along its middle and lower course. Its mouth is in the small Dezhnyov Bay of the Bering Sea.
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Its main tributary is the long Pikasvayam, joining it from the left about halfway through its course.[
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Flora and fauna
The river basin is characterized by tundra
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vegetation, including mosses, lichens, dwarf shrubs, and sedge
The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus '' Carex'' ...
s.[V. Yu. Neshataeva, ''Vegetation cover of the North of the Kamchatka Okrug (Kamchatsky Krai) and its geobotanical zoning'' // Ecology and geography of plants and plant communities: Proceedings of the IV International Scientific Conference. - Yekaterinburg, 2018. - April 16. — ISBN 978-5-7741-0341-6]
See also
* Bering tundra
*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
The Penzhina-West Kamchatka folded zone and the Ukelayat-Sredinnyi block in the structure of the Koryak Highland and Kamchatka
Kamchatka Krai travel guide
Rivers of Kamchatka Krai
Koryak Mountains
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