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Khatyngnakh (river)

The Khatyngnakh (; , Xatıŋnaax), or Khatynnakh (Хатыннах), is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is the longest tributary of the Uyandina. The river has a length of — together with the Donskaya— and a drainage basin area of .

The Khatyngnakh is fed by snow and rain. It flows north of the Arctic Circle, across desolate territories of the Aby District.

Course

The Khatyngnakh is a left tributary of the Uyandina. It is formed by the confluence of the long Donskaya from the left and the long 2nd Nonchondzhya (2-я Нонгонджя) from the right, both rivers having their sources in the southern slopes of the Polousny Range.

The Khatyngnakh flows meandering roughly southwards across a vast floodplain in the northern sector of the Aby Lowland, where there are innumerable lakes and swamps. Finally the river joins the left bank of the Uyandina from its mouth in the Indigirka.

Tributaries

The main tributaries of the Khatyngnakh are the long Esterikteekh (Эстэриктээх), the long Ryumkalaakh (Рюмкалаах) and the long Bysagyrdaakh (Бысагырдаах) on the right, as well as the long Mekchirge (Мэкчиргэ) and the long Kirdik (Кирдик) on the left. The river is frozen between the beginning of October and the beginning of June. There are more than 1,500 lakes in its basin with a total area of .

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