The Pegtymel (russian: Пегтымель) is a river in Far East Siberia,

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . It passes through the sparsely populated areas of the Siberian tundra and flows into the East Siberian Sea west of the

Long Strait The Long Strait (russian: пролив Лонга; ''Proliv Longa'') is a body of water in the Russian Federation. History This strait was named after the American whaling captain Thomas W. Long. In August 1983, it was the site of a disaster whe ...

. Its mouth is between Cape Shelagsky on

Chaunskaya Bay The Chaunskaya Bay or Chaun Bay (russian: Чаунская губа) is an Arctic bay in the East Siberian Sea, in the Chaunsky District of Chukotka, northeast Siberia. There is Port of Pevek. Geography The bay is open to the north and is 140&n ...

and

Cape Billings Cape Billings (russian: Мыс Биллингса - ''Mys Billingsa''), is a headland on the northern coast of Chukotka, Russian Federation to the west of Cape Schmidt. Geography The shore in the area around Cape Billings is bounded by narrow lan ...

to the east. Its most important tributary is the Kuvet which joins it from the right side. The Pegtymel and its tributaries belong to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug administrative region of

. There are ancient rock paintings on a site close to the Pegtymel. The

petroglyphs A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions ...

show boats,

reindeer Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 sub ...

hunting, and mushroom-headed figures likely representing a ritual with th hallucinognic mushroom fly agaric (''Amanita muscaria'').

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Rivers of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Drainage basins of the East Siberian Sea Chukotka Mountains {{Russia-river-stub