Ambarnaya River
Sign in to saveThe Ambarnaya () is a river in Siberia which flows in a northerly direction into Lake Pyasino. On leaving Lake Pyasino, the waters emerge as the river Pyasina. It shares a common delta with the river Norilskaya. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .
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- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Russia
- Located in
- Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Elevation
- 30
- Location
- Siberia
- Image
- Siberian tundra 05.jpg
- Length
- 60
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- Ambarnaya (Pyasino tributary)
- mouth of the watercourse
- Pyasino
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The Ambarnaya () is a river in Siberia which flows in a northerly direction into Lake Pyasino. On leaving Lake Pyasino, the waters emerge as the river Pyasina. It shares a common delta with the river Norilskaya. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .
The river is fed by rain and meltwater. It is shallow and its bed consists of glacial moraine – gravel and pebbles. It is heavily polluted by the mining industry of Norilsk, namely Nornickel, so fishing is no longer possible.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ambarnaya River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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