Kureyka
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The Kureyka (; also Lyuma, Numa) is a major right tributary of the Yenisey in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
Key facts
- River.name
- Kureyka
- River.image
- Река Курейка.JPG
- River.image_caption
- The cataracts in the Putorana Nature Reserve
- River.mouth
- Yenisey
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia
- River.length_km
- 888
- River.basin_size_km2
- 44700
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Continent
- Asia
- Image
- Река Курейка.JPG
- Length
- 888
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- watershed area
- 44700
- discharge
- 664
- mouth of the watercourse
- Yenisey
- origin of the watercourse
- Putorana Plateau
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Kureyka (; also Lyuma, Numa) is a major right tributary of the Yenisey in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
It falls from the Putorana Plateau to the vast taiga plain of Northern Siberia and flows northward passing through a series of elongated lakes, including the Yadun, Anama, and Dyupkun lakes. It is long. The river drains an area of about . Its valley forms the northern boundary of the Tunguska Plateau. At the confluence, the Kureyka is more than wide.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kureyka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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