Direction Amur River

on amur in khabarovsk

flowing across northeast asia on 4,444 kilometres (2,761 mi) (including 2 attributaries), mountains of northeastern china sea of okhotsk (near nikolayevsk-na-amure), drains remarkable watershed includes diverse landscapes of desert, steppe, tundra, , taiga, emptying pacific ocean through strait of tartary, mouth of river faces northern end of island of sakhalin.

the amur has been closely associated island of sakhalin @ mouth, , names island, in languages of indigenous peoples of region, derived name of river: sakhalin derives tungusic dialectal form cognate manchu sahaliyan ( black, in sahaliyan ula, black river ), while ainu , japanese karaputo or karafuto derived ainu name of amur or mouth. anton chekhov vividly described amur river in writings journey sakhalin island in 1890.

the average annual discharge varies 6,000 cubic metres per second (210,000 cu ft/s) (1980) 12,000 cubic metres per second (420,000 cu ft/s) (1957), leading average 9,819 cubic metres per second (346,800 cu ft/s) or 310 cubic kilometres (74 cu mi) per year. maximum runoff measured occurred in oct 1951 30,700 cubic metres per second (1,080,000 cu ft/s) whereas minimum discharge recorded in march 1946 mere 514 cubic metres per second (18,200 cu ft/s).