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Balanda (river)

The 883rd longest river in the world

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Balanda is a river in Volgograd and Saratov Oblasts in Russia, a right tributary of the Medveditsa (a tributary of the Don. It is 164 kilometres (102 mi) long, with a drainage basin of 1,900 square kilometres (730 mi2). The river has its sources on the Volga Uplands in Saratov oblast, and flows in a southwesterly direction to its confluence with the Medveditsa in Volgograd Oblast. Most of the Balandas waters is from snow melting on the Volga Uplands. The town of Kalininsk is situated by the Balanda.

Flows through: Russia.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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