Yana
Yana is a mapped river in the YearMaps hydrographic index. River courses organise settlement, agriculture and frontier-making more durably than any political boundary, and this reach is indexed against the dams, lakes and cities within its catchment.
- Feature Class
- River
- Coordinates
- 70.04°, 135.42°
About Yana
The Yana (Russian: Я́на, IPA: [ˈjanə]; Yakut: Дьааҥы, romanized: Caañı) is a river in Sakha in Russia, located between the Lena to the west and the Indigirka to the east.
Encyclopedic summary adapted from Wikipedia: Yana (river) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Yana in Depth
Course
It is 872 kilometres (542 mi) long, and its drainage basin covers 238,000 square kilometres (92,000 mi2). Including its longest source river, the Sartang, it is 1,492 km (927 mi) long. Its annual discharge totals approximately 35 cubic kilometres (28,000,000 acre⋅ft). Most of this discharge occurs in May and June as the ice on the river breaks up. The Yana freezes up on the surface in October and stays under the ice until late May or early June. In the Verkhoyansk area, it stays frozen to the bottom for 70 to 110 days, and partly frozen for 220 days of the year.
The river begins at the confluence of the rivers Sartang and Dulgalakh in the Yana-Oymyakon Highlands.
History
Evidence of modern human habitation was found in the delta at the Yana RHS (Rhinoceros Horn Site) as early as 32,000 years ago. These people, designated as "Ancient North Siberians", genetically diverged 38,000 years ago from Western Eurasians, soon after the Western Eurasians split from East Asians.
In 1633–38 Ilya Perfilyev and Ivan Rebrov sailed down the Lena and east along the Arctic coast to the mouth of the Yana and reached the Indigirka estuary. In 1636–42 Elisei Buza followed essentially the same route. In 1638–40, Poznik Ivanov ascended a tributary of the lower Lena, crossed the Verkhoyansk Range to the upper Yana and then crossed the Chersky Range to the Indigirka.
Sections adapted from Wikipedia: Yana (river) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Yana: Key Facts
| Length | 872 km |
|---|---|
| Average discharge | 925 m³/s |
| Drainage basin | 238,000 km² |
| Mouth | Yana Bay |
| Tributaries | Bytantay, Adycha River, Ol'dzho, Sartang River, Dulgalakh River, Abyrabyt, Tykakh, Baky |
Facts from Wikidata Q78861 (CC0).
Major River Dossiers
Hand-written studies of the great river systems of history.
Connected Reaches
Nearby watercourses in the same drainage network.
Water Bodies in the Catchment
Settlements Along the Reach
Hydraulic Infrastructure Nearby
Surrounding Terrain
Yana: Quick Answers
- Where is Yana?
- Yana is located in Russia, at 70.0383° N, 135.4192° E.
- Are there dams on the Yana?
- No dam on the Yana is recorded in the YearMaps dam index, which covers major structures only.