Khroma River

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The chroma (Russian Хрома ) is a 685 km long tributary of the East Siberian Sea in the northeast of Russia.

Course

The Chroma is produced beyond the Arctic Circle in 88 m height on the northern flank Polousnyrückens from the short headwaters Temteken from left and Nemalak - Arangas from the right. This spring, approximately 500 meters height on the rising up to 900 m means good mountain range, which limits the Jana - Indigirka lowlands in the north east of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia ) from the south. The longer of the two sources is the Temteken with 26 km, so that the total length of the chroma is together with this 711 km.

At its entire length, the chroma flows in a north-easterly, partly north first, the forest-tundra and from the middle reaches of the flat and marshy tundra landscape of northern Yakutia. Here, the river meanders extremely strong. He finally ends with a half a mile wide estuary in the 100 -kilometer-long chrome Abusen the East Siberian Sea. Above the mouth of the funnel, the chroma is deep almost 200 meters wide and three meters; The flow rate is 0.2 m / s

Your most important tributaries are Tenkeli (length 119 km) and the opening into the lower reaches Urjung - Ulach (314 miles), both from the left. In the basin of the Chroma there are more than 8,000 lakes with a total area of 1330 km ².

Hydrology

The catchment area of the river comprises 19.7 thousand km ². The Chroma freezes between the end of September / beginning of October and the end of May / first half of June.

Use and infrastructure

The Chroma is navigable from the middle reaches, but is not used for inland navigation, as the area is traversed by virtually uninhabited. The population density of the Ulus ( Rajons ) Allaichowski crossed by the river almost its entire length, has a population density of only 0.04 inhabitants per km ²; the river there are no villages, any transport infrastructure is missing.

On the left tributary Tenkeli that flow to the upper reaches of the chroma, was from the 1960s, the same urban-type settlement Tenkeli that had arisen in connection with the development of a Zinnlagerstätte. In 1989 the settlement of just under 3,000 residents, but was abandoned in the 1990s after the closure of the mine and ghost town.