Also known as Ket River
river in Siberia, tributary of the Ob
Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Source
- Ket
- Location
- Bolshemurtinsky District , Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Coordinates
- 56°49′48″N 92°28′59″E / 56.830°N 92.483°E / 56.830; 92.483
- Elevation
- 330 m (1,080 ft)
- Mouth
- Ob
- Length
- 1,621 km (1,007 mi)
- Basin size
- 94,200 km (36,400 sq mi)
- Progression
- ‹See Tfd› Ob → Kara Sea
- Left
- Malaya Ket, Mendel, Yelovaya , Chachamga
- Right
- Sochur, Orlovka , Lisitsa
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Russian Empire
- Located in
- Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Continent
- Asia
- Image
- Mouth of the Ket' (2024-07-01 Sentinel-2 L2A).png
- Length
- 1621
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- Commons category
- Ket River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Ob
- watershed area
- 94200
- discharge
- 560
- different from
- catboat
- origin of the watercourse
- Sayan Mountains
- basin country
- Russia
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ket was a part of the Siberian River Routes.
The Ket (Russian: Кеть), also known in its upper reaches as the Bolshaya Ket (Большая Кеть) is a west-flowing river in the Krasnoyarsk Krai and Tomsk Oblast in Russia, a right tributary of the Ob. The Ket has a length of 1,621 kilometres (1,007 mi) and a drainage basin of 94,200 square kilometres (36,400 mi). It freezes up in late October or early November and stays under the ice until late April or early May. Its main tributaries are the Sochur, Orlovka and Lisitsa from the right, Malaya Ket, Mendel, Yelovaya, and Chachamga from the left.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ket” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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