The Chara is a left tributary of the Olyokma in Eastern Siberia, Russia. It is 851 kilometres long, and has a drainage basin of 87,600 square kilometres.
View of the river and piece of charoite
The Chara Sands, a small desert zone in Siberia, near the Chara River. The Kodar Mountains are in the background.
The Zhuya is a river in Irkutsk Oblast, East Siberia, Russian Federation. It is the second largest tributary of the Chara river in terms of length and area of its basin. The river is 337 kilometres lo
Chara (river)
…the Olyokma not far from its mouth in the Lena. The Chara has 103 tributaries over 10 km (6.2 mi) in length. The most important are the Apsat and the Zhuya from the left and the Tokko from the right. The Sen River flows into the left bank of the Chara from the northern end of lake Nichatka. Charoite…