Ider River | |||||||||||
Name Other: | Ider gol | ||||||||||
Name Etymology: | Mongolian: Ider, "young, youthful") | ||||||||||
Subdivision Type1: | Country | ||||||||||
Subdivision Name1: | Mongolia | ||||||||||
Subdivision Type2: | Aimags | ||||||||||
Subdivision Name2: | Zavkhan, Khövsgöl | ||||||||||
Length: | 452km (281miles) | ||||||||||
Discharge1 Avg: | 57m3/s | ||||||||||
Source1 Location: | Khangai Mountains | ||||||||||
Source1 Coordinates: | 47.9131°N 97.9503°W (approximately) | ||||||||||
Source1 Elevation: | 2850 m (approximately) | ||||||||||
Mouth: | Selenge | ||||||||||
Mouth Location: | Olon golyn bilchir | ||||||||||
Mouth Coordinates: | 49.2611°N 100.6792°W | ||||||||||
Basin Size: | 24555km2 | ||||||||||
Tributaries Right: | Chuluut River | ||||||||||
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The Ider River (Mongolian: Идэр гол,, or Mongolian: Идэрийн гол,, "Young River") is a river in the Khövsgöl and Zavkhan aimags in northwestern Mongolia and is, together with the Delgermörön river, one of the sources of the Selenge river. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .[1] The source is in the Khangai range, the confluence with the Delgermörön is in Tömörbulag. The river is frozen 170–180 nights per year. There is a wooden bridge, which was built in 1940, near Jargalant and a concrete bridge in Galt.