| Shilka | |
|---|---|
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Amur_watershed.png) Location of the Shilka River within the Amur Basin | |
| Location | |
| Country | Russia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | Amur |
• coordinates | 53°19′58″N 121°28′49″E / 53.33278°N 121.48028°E |
| Length | 560 km (350 mi) |
| Basin size | 206,000 km2 (80,000 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 440 m3/s (16,000 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Amur→ Sea of Okhotsk |
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The Shilka (Russian: Ши́лка; Evenki: Силькари, Sil'kari; Buryat: Шилкэ, Shilke; Mongolian: Шилка, Shilka; Chinese: 石勒喀; pinyin: shílē kā) is a river in Zabaykalsky Krai, (Dauria) south-eastern Russia. It has a length of 560 km (350 mi), and has a drainage basin of 206,000 square kilometres (80,000 sq mi).[1]
The name derives from Evenki shilki 'narrow valley.'[2]
- ^ Шилка (река), Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- ^ E.M. Pospelov, Geograficheskie nazvaniya mira (Moscow: Russkie slovari, 1998), p. 473.