Saksahan


The Saksahan is a river in Ukraine, in the southeastern part of the Dnieper Upland, within Verhnedniprovsk, Piatykhatky, Sofiyivka and the Kryvyi Rih districts of Dnepropetrovsk region. Left tributary of the Inhulets.
The name is derived, according to some sources from the Turkic word «Saxagan» - «magpie».
The source of the river, in the modern territorial division, located by the village of Malooleksandrivka, Verkhnodniprovsk Raion, situated at an altitude of 140 meters above sea level.
The length of the river 144 km, the width of the river bed in an average of 5 – 15 meters, plёsah places expands to 20 - 40 meters.