Omolon River

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Catchment area of ​​the Kolyma and Omolon course of

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The 1114 km long Omolon (Russian Омолон, Yakut Омолоон / Omoloon ) is the largest tributary of the River in Siberia (northern Russia, Asia ) flowing Kolyma.

River

It rises in the gold-rich Kolymagebirge far from the main ridge. From there, the Omolon flows north through the north- west sloping landscape of this high mountain, where it receives its biggest tributary, the oloi ( Олой ). West along the Jukagirenplateaus and continue towards the north -flowing river reaches in the East Siberian lowland in which he only just to the west of the Kolyma deltas reached the Kolyma.

Landscape

The scenery at Omolon is dominated by the boreal forests of the taiga, which turns towards 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 only low water content in the soil no tall plants, such as trees, develop, but it is dominated by lichens, mosses, shrubs and ferns.