Kamchatka_River

Kamchatka (river)

Kamchatka (river)

River in Kamchatka, Russia

The Kamchatka (Russian: Камча́тка) is the longest river in Kamchatka peninsula, located in Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East. It flows into the Pacific Ocean at the town Ust-Kamchatsk, on the east coast of Kamchatka. It is 758 kilometres (471 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 55,900 square kilometres (21,600 sq mi).[1] The river is rich with salmon, millions of which spawn yearly and which once supported the settlements of the native Itelmen.[2]

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Kamchatka River

Climate

Like most of its namesake peninsula, the basin of the Kamchatka River has at low altitudes a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc) with short, cool to comfortable summers and freezing, snowy winters.

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References

  1. [1]
    "Река Камчатка, Озёрная Камчатка in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).
  2. [2]
    Map 3.7 (Kamchatka) Archived 2007-07-05 at the Wayback Machine from the series prepared for the INSROP (International Northern Sea Route Programme) Working Paper No. 90 Archived 2009-07-21 at the Wayback Machine in 1997.
  3. [3]
    "Climate of Icha" (in Russian). Weather and Climate (Погода и климат). Retrieved 8 November 2019.



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