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Chara

The 326th longest river in the world

851 km

The Chara (́, Yakut, Çaara) is a left tributary of the Olyokma in Eastern Siberia, Russia. It is 851 kilometres (529 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 87,600 square kilometres (33, 800 sq mi). Together with the Olyokma, river Chara gives its name to the Olyokma-Chara Plateau, located to the east of its eastern bank.

Flows through: Russia.

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

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