Ilimpeya River

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Position of Ilimpeja ( Илимпея ) in the catchment area of the Lower Tunguska

The Ilimpeja (Russian Илимпея ) is a 611 km long left tributary of the Lower Tunguska in Central Siberia (Russia, Asia).

Course

The Ilimpeja entfließt in about 470 m of a small lake below the flat ridge Uramakit, about 270 km as the crow southeast of the settlement Tura, the administrative center of the former Autonomous Okrug Evenk, today Ewenkischer Rajon of Krasnoyarsk region. Source and total river located in the central part of the central Siberian highlands.

The Ilimpeja first flows more than 100 kilometers in the south to south-east directions, then turns sharply to the north but. This general flow direction it retains, with many wide arcs through the taiga landscape of the Middle Siberian mountain country throughout the course at. In several sections, as in the lower reaches, the valley is narrow and rocky; there rapids have trained. The river finally ends with two arms about 300 kilometers above ( east-southeast ) from Tura in the great Yenisei inflow Lower Tunguska ( Nischnjaja Tunguska ), located about five kilometers below the village on the left bank of the Tunguska Jukta.

In estuaries near the Ilimpeja is more than 150 meters wide and two meters deep, and the flow rate is there 0.8 m / s

Hydrology

The catchment area of ​​17,400 km ² comprises Ilimpeja. Your most important tributaries are Umnonga, Limptekan, Sungnumo and Dywengne from the left and from the right Tschungtuke.

The river freezes from late October to early May.

Use and infrastructure

The Ilimpeja is because of their rapids unnavigable little above the mouth.

The -carrying area is extremely sparsely populated by semi-nomadic reindeer herders living. The catchment area of ​​the river there are no towns. The only village nearby is the village located near the Ilimpeja estuary on the Lower Tunguska Jukta with 134 inhabitants. Accordingly, in the area lack of any infrastructure.