Bolshaya Kheta River

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The Great Cheta (Russian Большая Хета, Bolshaya Cheta ) is a 646 km long left tributary of the Yenisei River in the West Siberian lowland in the Asian part of Russia. It is not, a few hundred kilometers to the east to be confused with the left frontal flow Cheta the Chatanga.

Course

The Great Cheta entfließt in about 150 m height the Jelowoje Lake ( " Fichtensee ", also called Tscheskanama Lake) in the northeast of the West Siberian lowland, in the northwest of the Krasnoyarsk region and about 100 kilometers northwest of the city Igarka. The headwaters of the river is therefore also known under the name Jelowaja (Russian Еловая, " Spruce River ").

The Great Cheta flows through the forest-tundra landscape first several tens of kilometers in a south-easterly direction before it turns sharply to the northwest. Later they meandering reserves mainly in large sheets at a general flow direction to the north. In several sections, it marks the limit of the Rajons Turuchansk to the former Autonomous District of Taimyr, on whose territory they otherwise runs. The river finally flows about 75 km west- northwest of Dudinka in the lower reaches of the left, nearly two miles wide and in places more than 40 meters deep left arm of the Yenisei, which already goes there in his mouth funnel and is under tidal influence. The Great Cheta 's mouth close over 500 meters wide and four meters deep; where the flow rate is 0.2 m / s

Hydrology

The catchment area of the Great Cheta includes 20.7 thousand km ². She has several major tributaries, including Pokoinizkaja ( " Dead River ", also Bunilbiratyn ) Lodotschnaja ( " river boat " ) and Njungnjagda from left and Jatschinda and Soljonaja ( "Salt River ", also Chakdybira ) from the right.

Use and infrastructure

The Great Cheta is navigable from the middle reaches, but only applies to the lower 46 km from the settlement Semenovsky as inland waterways.

The river is considered to be rich in fish.

The area traversed by only sparsely populated. The only town on the river is Tuchard on the left bank of the lower reaches, with the associated district Semenovsky few kilometers upstream. It belongs to the rural community ( Selskoje posselenije ) watchtower, whose eponymous administrative center is located nearly 100 kilometers to the north on the right Yenisei. South Tuchard and Semenovsky cross the river several strands, which opened in 1969, 263 -kilometer pipeline, which starts with the lying on the border of the autonomous district of the Yamal -Nenets gas reservoir Messojacha and serves the fuel supply of the mining area to Norilsk. Any transport infrastructure in terms of roads missing in the area.