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Kamchatka River
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Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Mouth
- Pacific Ocean
- Location
- Ust-Kamchatsk
- Length
- 758 km (471 mi)
- Basin size
- 55,900 km (21,600 sq mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Kamchatka River The Kamchatka (Russian: Камча́тка) is the longest river in Kamchatka peninsula, located in Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East. It flows into the Pacific Ocean at the town Ust-Kamchatsk, on the east coast of Kamchatka. It is 758 kilometres (471 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 55,900 square kilometres (21,600 sq mi). The river is rich with salmon, millions of which spawn yearly and which once supported the settlements of the native Itelmen.
Climate
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kamchatka River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.