{{Infobox river | name = Rauchua | image = | image_caption = | map = Chukchi Sea5RAU.png | map_caption = Location of the Rauchua course | source1 = | source1_elevation = | mouth = East Siberian Sea | mouth_location = | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|69.4988|166.7196|region:RU|display=it}} | progression = | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = Russia | length = {{convert|323|km|abbr=on}} | discharge1_avg = | basin_size = {{convert|15400|km2|abbr=on}} }} The '''Rauchua''' ({{langx|ru|Раучуа}}, also: Большая Бараниха ''Bolshaya Baranikha'') is a river in Far East Siberia, Russia. It is {{convert|323|km}} long, and has a drainage basin of {{convert|15400|km2}}.<ref name=gvr>{{GVR|271861|Река Раучуа (Раучуван, Бол. Бараниха)}}</ref>
Remains of frozen mammoths have been found near the Rauchua.<ref>{{cite journal|year=1931|title=A trunk of mammoth (Elephas primigenius Blum.) found in the Kolyma district (Siberia)|author=C. Flerov|journal=Bulletin de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS}}</ref>
==Course== Its source is in the Ilirney Range. It passes through the sparsely populated areas of the Siberian tundra and flows northwards into the Kolyma Gulf, East Siberian Sea, not far west from Ayon Island.
The Rauchua and its tributaries belong to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug administrative region of Russia.
==References== {{reflist}} * [http://www.morphbank.net/.../ByLocation/index.php?pop=yes&submit2=2&offset=180&numPerPage=20&log=NO River description & location]{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20061117111346/http://www.yukonmuseums.ca/mammoth/abstrt-z.htm Mammoths] * {{cite web|url= http://assets.panda.org/downloads/chukotka_brochure.pdf |title=Tourism and environment }} {{small|(571 KB)}}
Category:Rivers of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Category:Drainage basins of the East Siberian Sea
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