Buotama


The Buotama is a river in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is a right tributary of the Lena and has a length of.
There is a nursery of wood bisons for reintroductions by the Ust-Buotama Reservoir on the lower reaches of the river. It was opened in 2006 with bisons imported from Canada.

Course

The river has its source in the northern part of the Aldan Highlands at an elevation of almost. It flows in an approximately ENE direction roughly parallel to the Lena through a relatively narrow valley by the Lena Plateau. Finally it makes a bend northwards and joins the right bank of the Lena, about upstream from the capital Yakutsk and from the Lena's mouth.
The Buotama freezes between October and November and thaws between the end of April or early May. The river flows across the Olyokminsky and Khangalassky districts.
The Buotama has over 60 tributaries that have a length over. The main tributaries are the Kharya-Yuryakh and Kuyuda on the right and the Talalakh on the left. There are about 200 lakes in its basin.