The Kotuykan () is a
river in
Krasnoyarsk Krai,
Russia. It is a right hand tributary of the
Kotuy.
The Kotuykan is long, and the
area of its
basin is . It freezes up in late September and breaks up in late May or early June.
Course
The Kotuykan has its source in the highest part of the
Anabar Plateau
The Anabar Plateau ( rus, Анабарское плато) is a mountain plateau in Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Siberia, Russia.
The plateau is in a latitude dominated by permafrost. The permafrost thickness under the Anab ...
. It is a fast-flowing river that flows westwards in a deep valley, often surrounded by picturesque
cliffs of marine sediments exposed by erosion that are 1.5 billion years old.
Аnаbаr - Kotuykan River
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The Kotuykan joins the right bank of the Kotuy as the latter flows from the south across the western side of the Anabar Plateau, from its mouth and from the mouth of the Khatanga in the Laptev Sea.Google Earth
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See also
* List of rivers of Russia
References
External links
Fishing helicopter flight from Khatanga to Kotuykan river
Rivers of Krasnoyarsk Krai
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