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 drai ...
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 Gre ...
and the
North Siberian Lowland. The area is very cold and desolate, devoid of settlements.
The Kuonamka Formation is a
Cambrian large igneous province
A large igneous province (LIP) is an extremely large accumulation of igneous rocks, including intrusive (sills, dikes) and extrusive (lava flows, tephra deposits), arising when magma travels through the crust towards the surface. The formation ...
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
The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...
:'' in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978[
]
Fauna
The main fish species in the river are grayling, taimen
Siberian taimen (''Hucho taimen''), also known as the common taimen (russian: Обыкнове́нный тайме́нь, Obyknovénnyĭ taĭménʹ), Siberian giant trout or Siberian salmon, is a species of salmon-like ray-finned fish from the ...
and whitefish.[Water of Russia, Малая Куонамка.]
See also
*List of rivers of Russia
Russia can be divided into a European and an 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. The Asian part is drain ...
References
External links
Schematic map of ancient terrains and kimberlitic fields in the Siberian craton
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Rivers of the Sakha Republic