Khilok River
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Location of Khilok (English Khilok ) in the catchment area of the Selenga (right)
Course of Khilok ( Хилок )
The Khilok (Russian Хилок, Хёолго Buryat, Mongolian Хялга гол ) is a 840 km long right tributary of the Selenga River in the south of Eastern Siberia Daurien.
Course
The Khilok entfließt the some 50 kilometers (direct distance ) north-west of Chita located in 965 m height Arachlei Lake. The 58.5 km ² lake is situated on the watershed between the basins of the Yenisei and the Lena: it drains through the Khilok the Yenisei, over a stream in a northeasterly direction to the Vitim and thus the Lena. First, the Khilok flows through the 53.6 km ² Schakschinskoje Lake (also Schakscha Lake). The only two kilometers long connecting the two lakes also means Choloi. In the wide valley of the upper reaches Khilok - there are other lakes. The largest is the Irgen lake with 33 km ², which is connected by an arm to the river.
The Khilok flows on the territory of the Trans-Baikal region through a wide valley in west south-westerly direction parallel to the south of the river located Jablonowygebirge. He reached the Autonomous Republic of Buryatia and turns about 100 kilometers above its mouth sharply to the north. Finally, it flows about 70 kilometers southwest of the Republic capital of Ulan -Ude in 522 m altitude in the Selenga River, the largest tributary of Lake Baikal.
In the entire course of the river forms across broad segments of meander and sometimes many kilometers away from each other arms. The most important tributary is the Ungo from the left. The river name is derived from the Evenk word for kilka grindstone.
Hydrographic
The catchment area of 38,500 km ² comprises Khilok. In estuaries near the river reaches a width of about 150 meters and two meters deep; The flow rate is 1.8 m / s
The Khilok freeze of October / early November to late April / early May. He can freeze through in the middle reaches between late December and April to reason. The average discharge ( MQ ) is 22 kilometers above the mouth of 96 m³ / s, with a mean monthly minimum of 4.1 m³ / s in February and a maximum of 220 m³ / s in May. Throughout the summer months ( May to September) the Khilok leads precipitation depends highly variable from year to year flood.
Infrastructure
The Khilok is navigable for several tens of kilometers in the lower reaches.
Almost the entire course of the river there are smaller towns. The only town is named after the river Khilok. The area is therefore relatively well developed infrastructure. Between the stations Kuli ( 5812 line kilometers ) and Sochondo ( 6096 route km ) follows the Trans-Siberian Railway to nearly 300 kilometers to the middle and upper reaches of the river on his right (north) side before they crossed it at Sochondo. In this section also highway M55 Irkutsk - Chita, part of the transcontinental rail link runs, in the river valley.
Further west, near the village of Maleta, the Khilok is crossed by the R425 regional road which leads from starting Petrowsk - Zabaikalsky by Krasny Tschikoi and the southwest of the Trans-Baikal region opens up in the middle reaches of the Tschikoi.
The lakes at the headwaters of Khilok are holidays, recreation and fishing area especially for the residents of the Capital Region Chita.