Badyarikha Explained

Badyarikha
Source1 Location:Moma Range
Mouth:Indigirka
Mouth Coordinates:68.3442°N 146.0172°W
Subdivision Type1:Country
Subdivision Name1:Russia
Length Km:545
Basin Size Km2:12200

The Badyarikha (ru|Бадяриха; sah|Бадьаариха, Bacaariixa) is a river in Yakutia in Russia, a right tributary of the Indigirka. The length of the Badyarikha is 545km (339miles) and the area of its drainage basin is 12200km2. Its sources are located on the northern slopes of the Moma Range[1]

The Badyarikha flows on the eastern side of the Aby Lowland. Its main tributaries are the rivers Ogorokha, Orto-Tirekhtyakh, and Anty.

Paleontology

A diverse mammoth fauna, including a mummy of Homotherium latidens cub, one of the few Eurasian records of this species from the Upper Pleistocene, was found in the Yedoma horizon at the Badyarikhskoe locality on this river.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Momsky Khrebet / Great Soviet Encyclopedia; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov. 2004—2017.
  2. A. V. Lopatin. M. V. Sotnikova. A. I. Klimovsky. A. V. Lavrov. A. V. Protopopov. D. O. Gimranov. E. V. Parkhomchuk. 2024-11-14. Scientific Reports. 14. 28016. 10.1038/s41598-024-79546-1. free. 11564651.