Malaya Kuonamka

The Malaya Kuonamka (russian: Малая Куонамка; sah, Кыра Куонамка) is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is a right tributary of the Anabar with a length of . Its drainage basin area is .

The river flows north of the Arctic Circle, in the northern limits of the Central Siberian Plateau and the North Siberian Lowland. The area is very cold and desolate, devoid of settlements.

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Course

The Malaya Kuonamka "Little Kuonamka" is the second largest tributary of the Anabar. The river has its source in an elevated swamp at an altitude of in the eastern side of the Anabar Plateau. Together with the long Bolshaya Kuonamka "Big Kuonamka" to the west, it is one of the two rivers that form the Anabar at their confluence. In their last stretch both rivers flow roughly northwards. Finally they meet where the Anabar river proper begins, from its mouth in the Laptev Sea.Google EarthМалая Куонамка
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The river is fed by rain and snow. It is frozen between late September and late May. The longest tributaries are the long Usumuun (Усумуун), the long Delinde (Дьэлиндэ), as well as the long Maspaaki (Маспаакы) from the right.

Fauna

The main fish species in the river are grayling, taimen and whitefish.Water of Russia, Малая Куонамка.

See also

*List of rivers of Russia

References

External links

Schematic map of ancient terrains and kimberlitic fields in the Siberian craton

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Rivers of the Sakha Republic