The Malaya Kuonamka (russian: Малая Куонамка; sah, Кыра Куонамка) is a river in
Yakutia
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(Sakha Republic),
Russia
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. It is a right
tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainag ...
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
The Central Siberian Plateau (russian: Среднесибирское плоскогорье, Srednesibirskoye ploskogorye; sah, Орто Сибиир хаптал хайалаах сирэ) is a vast mountainous area in Siberia, one of the Grea ...
and the
North Siberian Lowland
The North Siberian Lowland (russian: Северо-Сибирская низменность; sah, Хотугу Сибиир намтала), also known as Taymyr Lowland (Таймырская низменность), is a plain with a relatively ...
. The area is very cold and desolate, devoid of settlements.
The Kuonamka Formation is a
Cambrian
The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million years ag ...
large igneous province in the northeastern
Siberian platform.
A middle Cambrian fauna of skeletal fossils from the Kuonamka Formation, northern Siberia
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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 Earth][Малая Куонамка](_blank)
/ ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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:'' in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist known ...
. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978[
]
Fauna
The main fish species in the river are grayling
Grayling or Greyling may refer to:
Animals Fish
* Grayling, generically, any fish of the genus ''Thymallus'' in the family Salmonidae
** European grayling (''Thymallus thymallus''), the European species of the genus ''Thymallus''
** Arctic grayli ...
, taimen and whitefish.[Water of Russia, Малая Куонамка.]
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
Schematic map of ancient terrains and kimberlitic fields in the Siberian craton
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Rivers of the Sakha Republic