The Tanama () is a
river in northern
Siberia,
Russia. It is one of the main tributaries of the
Yenisey.
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The Tanama is long, and the
area of its
basin is . The river has the highest water level in July and the lowest during the winter.
It flows through desolate, uninhabited areas and there are no permanent settlements along its course.
Course
The Tanama has its source in the
Gyda Peninsula,
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug,
Tyumen Oblast. It flows first roughly northwestwards and northwards, forming a wide arch across the
tundra above the
Arctic Circle
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.
The Arctic Circle marks the southernmost latitude at w ...
. In its upper and middle course the river forms the border of the Tyumen Oblast for about . The Tanama changes direction in its lower course and meanders roughly eastwards, flowing across the swampy lowlands of the northeastern part of the
West Siberian Plain. About before the mouth the river splits into many branches and finally joins the western (left) bank of the left channel of the Yenisey (Deryabinsky Yenisey) near Polikarpovsk village, not far from the
Yenisey Gulf and about northwest of
Dudinka.
The river freezes in mid-September and stays frozen until late May or early June.
The Tanama has 30 tributaries that are over long. The main tributaries are six of these that are over in length: the Ngarka-Lybonkatyakha, Yartoyakha, Nenereyakha, Payotayakha on the left and the Big Pyakoyakha and Yara on the right.
[Russia. Topographic map 1:200.000. Sheet R-44-XXVII, XXVIII. 1987]
See also
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List of rivers of Russia
References
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External links
Fishing in Russia Rivers of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Rivers of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Rivers of Tyumen Oblast