The Kotuykan () is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater
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in
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai ( rus, Красноя́рский край, r=Krasnoyarskiy kray, p=krəsnɐˈjarskʲɪj ˈkraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in ...
,
Russia
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. It is a right hand tributary of the
Kotuy
The Kotuy () is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is one of the two rivers that form the Khatanga; the other one being the Kheta.
The Kotuy is long, and the area of its basin is . It freezes up in late September or early October and brea ...
.
The Kotuykan is long, and the
area
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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 Ana ...
. It is a fast-flowing river that flows westwards in a deep valley, often surrounded by picturesque
cliff
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s 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
The Laptev Sea ( rus, мо́ре Ла́птевых, r=more Laptevykh; sah, Лаптевтар байҕаллара, translit=Laptevtar baỹğallara) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the northern coast of Siberia, th ...
.[ Google Earth]
Its main tributaries
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are the long Ilya
Ilya, Iliya, Ilia, Ilja, or Ilija (russian: Илья́, Il'ja, , or russian: Илия́, Ilija, ; uk, Ілля́, Illia, ; be, Ілья́, Iĺja ) is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Eliahu), meaning "My God is Yahu/ Jah ...
(Илья) and the long Dyogdyo (Дёгдё).
See also
*List of rivers of Russia
Russia can be divided into a European Russia, European and an North Asia, Asian part. The dividing line is generally considered to be the Ural Mountains. The European part is drained into the Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Black Sea, and Caspian Sea. Th ...
References
External links
Fishing helicopter flight from Khatanga to Kotuykan river
Rivers of Krasnoyarsk Krai
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