Podkamennaya Tunguska River
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 Map of the Yenisei basin that shows the Podkamennaya Tunguska river |
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| Mouth | Yenisei River |
| Basin countries | Russia |
| Length | 1,865 km (1,159 mi) |
| Avg. discharge | 1,750 m³/s (61,810 ft³/s) |
| Basin area | 240,000 km² (92,664 mi²) |
The Podkamennaya Tunguska (Russian: Подкаменная Тунгуска, literally Tunguska under the stones, also Middle Tunguska or Stony Tunguska) is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia; it is an eastern tributary of the Yenisei and has a length of 1,160 miles (1,870 km). The name of the river comes from the fact that it flows under pebble fields without open water.[clarification needed] As early as 1610 Russians from Mangazeya had passed the Stony Tunguska's confluence with the Yenisei; by the 1620s Mangazeya Cossacks and trappers had ascended it seeking fur-tribute from the local Tungus clans.[1][2] The Tunguska event in June 1908 occurred near this river, some 8 km (5.0 mi) SSE of Lake Cheko.
In the upper reaches is known as Katanga.[3]
References [edit]
- ^ Fisher, Raymond Henry (1943). The Russian Fur Trade, 1550-1700. University of California Press.
- ^ Forsyth, James (1992). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian colony 1581-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Тунгуска/ Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Coordinates: 61°35′40″N 90°08′00″E / 61.5944°N 90.1333°E
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