Maaça

Macha lies on the right bank of the Lena, in the forested country downstream from the mouth of the Vitim. The Lena here receives rivers from the Patom highlands on one side and the Lena plateau on the other. The nearby mouths of the Bolshoy and Maly Patom mark the meeting of mountain waters with the great river, which continues north towards the Arctic through the long Siberian winter and brief summer.