The Chara Sands is an area of sand in Siberia near the Kodar and Udokan mountain ranges. It is a small desert 3 kilometers wide by 6 kilometers long, located in the Charsk basin amid the valleys of Ch
The Chara Sands, a desert like area in the middle of Siberia, as seen near Novaya Chara. The Kodar Mountains lie in the background.
Dune in the Charsky Sands
Chara Sands, Zabaikalsky region
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.
Chara Sands
…Kodar and Udokan mountain ranges. It is a small desert 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) wide by 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) long, located in the Charsk basin amid the valleys of Chara, Middle Sakukan and Upper Sakukan rivers. The rapid change from the pine and larch forests and peat bogs to the sand has no transition zone—this is one…
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.