Aldan
The 46th longest river in the world
The Aldan (Sakha and) is the second-longest right tributary of the Lena in the Sakha Republic in eastern Siberia. The river is 2,273 kilometres (1, 412 mi) long, of which around 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) is navigable. It has a drainage basin of 729,000 square kilometres (281, 000 sq mi). The river was part of the River Route to Okhotsk. In 1639 Ivan Moskvitin ascended the rivers Aldan and Maya and crossed to the Ulya to reach the Sea of Okhotsk. Its basin is known for gold and for Cambrian fossils.
Flows through: Russia.
River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.