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Tsipa River

The 500th longest river in the world

692 km

The Tsipa is the largest tributary of the Vitim in Buryatia, Russia. It is 692 kilometres (430 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 42,200 square kilometres (16, 300 sq mi). Maksim Perfilyev was the first Russian to reach the Tsipa in 1640. Perch, pike, lenok, grayling, taimen and whitefish are found in the waters of the Tsipa.

Flows through: Russia.

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

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