Alazeya River

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Catchment area of ​​the Alaseja

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The Alaseja (Russian Алазея ) is a 1520 km long river or stream of the Kolyma lowland in eastern Siberia and north-east of Russia ( Asia).

Course

The Alaseja originates in the northern foothills of the Alaseja Plateau (up to 954 m), which protrudes from the southern part of the East Siberian lowlands, by the confluence of the current flowing from the southwest zoom Nelkan and coming from Southeast Kadyltschan (east). It runs very tortuous between the basins of Indigirka in the west and Kolyma in the east.

Initially, the Alaseja flows northeastward to infuse into the Kolyma lowland, the eastern part of the East Siberian lowlands. Therein after it passes over Argachtach Andrjuschkino to then pivot to the north.

Finally, the Alaseja reached her small estuary, located about 200 km east of Indigirka Delta. After flowing through the delta, which consists of two main branches, in essence, it flows into the East Siberian Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean; immediately before its mouth was directly east of the river in 1998 abandoned trading post Logaschkino.

Landscape, hydrography and ice

The landscape at the Alaseja is of boreal forest (taiga ) dominates, which give way to the coast in the forest-tundra and tundra. In the latter, the northernmost inhabited regions of the earth can be because of the permafrost and the short growing season, no tall plants, such as trees, develop, there prevail lichens, mosses, shrubs and ferns. When compared to the flow length relatively small catchment area ( 64,700 km ²) of Alaseja has extensive swamps and thousands of small and large lakes. The river is covered by late September or early October to late May or early June of ice. When the snow melts and the permafrost thaw in the summer, it comes along the river to serious flooding.