The Sen ( rus, Сэн; sah, Сээн), also known as Sian ( rus, Сян), is a river in
Yakutia
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(
Sakha Republic),
Russia
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. It is a left hand tributary of the
Vilyuy
The Vilyuy ( rus, Вилю́й, p=vʲɪˈlʲʉj; sah, Бүлүү, ''Bülüü'', ) is a river in Russia, the longest tributary of the Lena. About long, it flows mostly within the Sakha Republic. Its basin covers about .
History
The river is fi ...
, and is long, with 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 .
There are no permanent inhabited places in the river area.
Course
The Sen belongs to the upper stretch of the Vilyuy basin. It begins in an area of small lakes of the upper
Vilyuy Plateau. In its first stretch it flows across lake
Burunda, flowing out of it from the western lakeshore and heading roughly southwards across the plateau. Midway through its course it bends and flows southeastwards for a stretch. In its lower course the Sen bends again southwards
meandering strongly in 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 ...
with
oxbow lake
An oxbow lake is a U-shaped lake or pool that forms when a wide meander of a river is cut off, creating a free-standing body of water. In South Texas, oxbows left by the Rio Grande are called '' resacas''. In Australia, oxbow lakes are cal ...
s. Finally, shortly before its mouth it bends westwards and meets the left bank of the Vilyuy from its mouth in the Lena. The confluence is almost opposite the mouth of the
Ulakhan-Vava in the facing bank.
Nature.ykt
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The main tributaries of the Sen are the long Dzheltuli and the long Saalaa-Yurekh from the left. The river freezes between mid October and late May or early June.[
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See also
*List of rivers of Russia
Russia can be divided into a European Russia, European and an North Asia, 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. Th ...
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Кроншнеп-малютка Numenius minutus в центральной части Вилюйского плато
Rivers of the Sakha Republic