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Chuya

The 850th longest river in the world

512 km

The Chuya, also known as Big Chuya in its last 52 km (32 mi) stretch, is a river in Buryatia and Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. It is the 13th longest tributary of the Lena and the 191st longest river in Russia, with a length of 512 kilometres (318 mi) and a drainage basin area of 18,400 square kilometres (7, 100 mi2). The Mamsko-Chuysky District of Irkutsk Oblast is named after rivers Mama and Chuya. The abolished district's settlement of Chuya is located on the right bank of the Lena River at the confluence with the Chuya.

Flows through: Russia.

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

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