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Encyclopedia > Selenga River

The Selengе or Selenga (Mongolian: Сэлэнгэ, Russian: Селенга́) is a river in Mongolia and Russia. It rises in the Hangai Mountains under the name of Ider, and flows into Lake Baikal. Its length is 1024 km. The Selenge is the headwater of the Yenisei-Angara River.


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FISH AND FISHERIES AT HIGHER ALTITUDES: ASIA - TECHNICAL PAPER NO. 385 (15994 words)
The fish fauna in the Shishhid River basin and in the River Hovd (Kobdo) is conspicuous for the absence of Salvelinus.
In the River Ob it is 6848-29,429, and in the River Khatanga it is 12,680-21,720 (Moskalenko, 1971).
In the Selenga and Orhon the fecundity is 31,500 to 50,000, and in Lake Hovsgol Nuur 51,000 to 350,000 for age classes 8+ to 13+.
Encyclopedia: Amu Darya (841 words)
It is then split into many waterways that used to form the river delta joining the Aral Sea, passing Urgench, Dashoguz and other cities, but it does not reach what is left of the sea anymore and is lost in the desert.
Historical records state that in different periods the river flowed into the Aral Sea (from the south), the Caspian Sea (from the east) or both, similar to the Syr Darya (Jaxartes, in Ancient Greek).
Rivers of Uzbekistan Syr Darya (also known as Syrdarya or Sirdaryo) is a river in Central Asia.
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