Nizhnyaya Tunguska River
Coordinates: 65°47′00″N 87°57′20″E / 65.7833333°N 87.95556°E / 65.7833333; 87.95556
| Nizhnyaya Tunguska (Нижняя Тунгуска) | |
| River | |
| Lower Tunguska at summer of 2008. | |
| Tributaries | |
| - right | Kochechum |
| Cities | Turukhansk, Tura, Erbogachen |
|---|---|
| Source | |
| - location | Central Siberian Plateau, Russia |
| Mouth | Yenisei river |
| Length | 2,989 km (1,857 mi) |
| Basin | 473,000 km2 (182,626 sq mi) |
| Discharge | for Yenisei river |
| - average | 3,680 m3/s (129,958 cu ft/s) |
| - max | 112,000 m3/s (3,955,243 cu ft/s) |
| - min | 1 m3/s (35 cu ft/s) |
| Map of the Yenisei basin that shows the Nizhnyaya Tunguska river | |
Nizhnyaya Tunguska (Russian: Ни́жняя Тунгу́ска;, meaning Lower Tunguska) is a river in Siberia, Russia, flows through the Irkutsk Oblast and the Krasnoyarsk Krai. The river is a right tributary of the Yenisei joining it at Turukhansk (see Siberian River Routes). Settlements on the river include Tura, Yukti and Simenga. The ice-free period on the Lower Tunguska starts in mid-June and ends in the first half of October.
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