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Saksahan - a river in Ukraine, in the southeastern part of the Dnieper Upland, within Verhnedniprovsk, Pyatihatskoy, St. Sophia and the Kryvyi Rih districts of Dnepropetrovsk region. Left tributary of Inhulets (Dnieper basin).
Map of Saksahan, Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovska, Ukraine
The name is derived, according to some sources from the Turkic word «Saxagan» - «magpie».
Source of the river, in the modern territorial division, located in the village of Maloaleksandrovka, Verhnedniprovsk raion, Dnipropetrovsk region, situated at an altitude of 140 meters above sea level.
The length of the river (river basin) 144 km (according to other sources has a total length of 130 kilometers), the width of the river bed in an average of 5 – 15 meters, plёsah places expands to 20 - 40 (29 to 40) meters (watershed line - 250 km).