Delgermörön

Delgermörön near Moron

Location of Delgermörön in the catchment area of the Selenga (left)

The Delgermörön (Mongolian Дэлгэрмөрөн ) is 445 km long, north-west or left side source of the Selenga River in Mongolia ( Asia).

Course

The Delgermörön rises about northwest of the Chöwsgöl Aimag in the southern part of the Ulan Taiga Mountains. Its source lies in a valley traversed by mountain lakes just south of the highest mountain, 3351 m high Beltschir Uul.

Initially aspiring to south flowing river a few miles below its source through the Ulaan Taiga National Park. It makes for a short distance a border between Russia and Mongolia. Later he runs, the foothills of the Ulan Taiga Mountains leaving and the resort Burentogtoch passing, predominantly in a southeasterly direction and turns to something after passing through the town of Moron on his last few kilometers to the south.

Finally, the Delgermörön 1.5 km in the southern part of the united Chöwsgöl Aimag by the confluence of the coming of the West Bugsein Gol at about 1176 meters above sea level with the end coming from the south Ider to the Selenga, a southwestern tributary of Lake Baikal.

Hydrology and ice

The catchment area of ​​approximately 26,600 km ² Delgermörön is great. The river is covered every year from October or November until the middle or end of April of ice. If melt ice and snow in the spring and summer, caused by the river, its average discharge ( MQ ) at 33 m³ / s, and its maximum drain takes place usually in June, often flooding.

Flora and Fauna

The Delgermörön flows including through steppe areas. In the river life of the family Salmonidae, for example, grayling, trout and taimen.