Nera Plateau


The Nera Plateau is a mountain plateau in the southeastern Sakha Republic and the northwestern end of Magadan Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.
The Ust-Nera - Magadan tract of the R504 Kolyma Highway crosses the plateau from northwest to southeast. There are gold placers in certain spots of the Nera Plateau.

Geography

The Nera Plateau is at the source area of the Nera River, a tributary of the Indigirka. Other rivers on it are the Ayan Yuryakh, one of the rivers that form the Kolyma, and the Byoryolyokh, an Ayan Yuryakh tributary. The plateau is limited by ranges of the Chersky mountain system to the northeast, the Upper Kolyma Highlands to the southeast and the Tas-Kystabyt to the southwest.
The average elevations of the plateau surface lie between and. The highest summit is Khulamryn, a high peak.

Flora

The plateau is in an area dominated by permafrost. There are sparse larch forests on the plateau and thickets of dwarf cedar and alder up to elevations from to, above which there is only mountain tundra.