Agan River

Course of Agan ( Аган ) in the catchment area of the Ob

The Agan (Russian Аган ) is a 544 km long left tributary of the Tromjogan the Western Siberian Lowlands in Russia.

Course

The Agan entfließt to 78 m height Mensawemtor the lake in the central part of the West Siberian Plain, near the watershed between the right tributaries of the Ob and the catchment area of ​​Pur. It flows along its entire length in a westerly to southwesterly direction, always on the territory of the Autonomous Okrug of the Khanty -Mansi / Ugra, the marshy and lake-rich taiga landscape of the lowlands to its mouth in 32 m height in the Tromjogan, over 60 km east-northeast of Surgut. From several sources of Agan is regarded as a right tributary of the Ob, and the Tromjogan accordingly as a right tributary of the Agan.

The most important tributaries of the Agan are Nankjogan and amputation of the right and left of Wanjogan.

Hydrographic

The catchment area of ​​32,200 km ² comprises Agan. In estuaries near the river reaches a width up to 200 m at a depth of 2.5 m; the flow rate here is 0.5 m / s

The Agan freezes from late October until the second half of May. The water flow 87 km above the mouth, is the annual average 275 m³ / s at a minimum of 80.0 m³ / s in March and a maximum of 730 m³ / s in June.

Infrastructure and economy

The river is navigable for 360 km.

The development of almost the entire traversed by Agan area began with the discovery of the West Siberian petroleum and natural gas reserves from the 1960s. Riverside cities Raduschny and Pokatschi and the urban-type settlement Nowoagansk, which are connected by roads with each other and with the Russian road network emerged. Not far from the mouth and the eponymous village Agan the river is crossed by the railway line and the road connecting the cities located on the Ob Surgut and Nizhnevartovsk.