Yudoma River

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Position of Judoma ( Юдома ) in the catchment area of the Aldan

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The Judoma (Russian Юдома ) is a 765 km long right tributary of Maja in northeastern Siberia (Russia, Asia).

Course

The Judoma completed in only 1000 m south of the Suntar Chajata, a south-eastern foothills of the Verkhoyansk Mountains, from the headwaters Awlija and Nitkan. The left (eastern ) source river Nitkan with a length of about 55 kilometers of the larger; he entfließt to over 2000 m altitude of a glacier here around 2700 meters high Suntar Chajata.

First, the Judoma flowing south in a wide valley parallel to Judomakamm, one of the highest parts of the Judoma Maja highlands. Then she turns to the west to southwest direction and flows through large arcs said highlands to its mouth in 190 m altitude in the Maja, a few kilometers above the located on the right bank of Maja village Ust- Judoma. The Judoma 's mouth close over 300 meters wide and four meters deep to, and the flow rate is 1.4 m / s

Source and headwaters of the river are on the territory of Khabarovsk Krai. In the middle reaches it reaches the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia ), flows through their territory a few kilometers and then forms to its confluence with the Maya the border between the two areas.

The most important tributaries of the Judoma are right Akatschan (length 154 km), from left Gorby (159 km) and Kjala (109 km).

Hydrographic

The catchment area of ​​43,700 km ² comprises Judoma.

The Judoma freezes between mid-October and the second half of May, after which it leads to September floods with maximum in July. Not far from the mouth of the average flow rate of 342 m³ / s with a minimum of 3.7 m³ / s in March and a maximum of 1081 m³ / s in June.

Infrastructure

The lower 270 km of Judoma are navigable.

The through by the Judoma area is largely uninhabited; single spot on the river is the prospector village ( officially urban-type settlement ) Jugorjonok that had 2006 or 813 inhabitants (compared to 1870 in 1989 ), on the right ( Yakut ) riverside. The settlement is the end point of a 300 -kilometer dirt road, which starts from the north of the Ust- Maya Rajonverwaltungszentrums on the right Aldanufer nearby settlement Eldikan. Otherwise, lack of any infrastructure completely.

Swell

• Judoma in Geography Handbook Yakutia ( the website of the Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of Sakha ( Yakutia ), Russian; archived in the Internet Archive, accessed on 18 February 2011)