Amur River
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The Amur or Heilong Jiang (Even: Тамур (Tamur), Manchu: , Sahaliyan Ula; Cheenese: 黑龙江; pinyin: Hēilóng Jiāng; Roushie: ре́ка Аму́р, IPA: [ɐˈmur]) is the warld's tent langest river, formin the border atween the Roushie Far East an Northeastren Cheenae (Inner Manchurie). The lairgest fish species in the Amur is the kaluga, attainin a length as great as 5.6 metres.[2]
Amur (Sahaliyan river ) | |
Heilong Jiang (黑龙江) река Аму́р | |
River | |
Amur near Verkhnaya Ekon, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia | |
Name oreegin: Mongolian: amur, "rest") | |
Kintras | Roushie, Cheenae |
---|---|
Pairt o | Strait o Tartary |
Tributaries | |
- left | Shilka, Zeya, Bureya, Amgun |
- right | Ergune, Huma, Songhua, Ussuri |
Ceeties | Blagoveschensk, Heihe, Tongjiang, Khabarovsk, Amursk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Nikolayevsk-on-Amur |
Primar soorce | Onon River-Shilka River |
- location | Khan Khentii Strictly Protectit Aurie, Khentti Province, Mongolie |
- elevation | 2,045 m (6,709 ft) |
- coordinates | 48°48′59″N 108°46′13″E |
Seicontar soorce | Kherlen River-Ergune River |
- location | aboot 195 kilometre (121 mi) frae Ulaanbaatar, Khentii Province, Mongolie |
- elevation | 1,961 m (6,434 ft) |
- coordinates | 48°47′54″N 109°11′54″E |
Soorce confluence | |
- location | Near Pokrovka, Roushie & Cheenae |
- elevation | 303 m (994 ft) |
- coordinates | 53°19′58″N 121°28′37″E |
Mooth | Strait of Tartary |
- location | Near Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai, Roushie |
- elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
- coordinates | 52°56′50″N 141°05′02″E |
Lenth | 2,824 km (1,755 mi) [1] |
Basin | 1,855,000 km2 (716,220 sq mi) [1] |
Discharge | for mooth |
- average | 11,400 m3/s (402,587 cu ft/s) |
- max | 30,700 m3/s (1,084,160 cu ft/s) |
- min | 514 m3/s (18,152 cu ft/s) |
Map o the Amur River wattershed |
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