Kanchalan River

Kantschalan - Liman (center left) as he opens up to the Anadyr estuary towards

Catchment area of ​​the Kantschalan

The Kantschalan (Russian Канчалан ) is a river in the Chukchi Autonomous District in northeast Siberia.

The 426 km long river flows through a sparsely populated tundra landscape in the northeast of Anadyrtieflands in a southerly direction before it opens into the Kantschalan - Liman, a northern part of the Anadyr Bay estuary. The Kantschalan drains an area of 20600 km ². Important tributaries from the right Tnekweiem and Impeneikuiym. A few kilometers before its confluence with the river passes through the same settlement Kantschalan. In the estuary of the Kantschalan hold regularly on beluga whales. The river is frozen between mid-October and early June. The lower 50 km are navigable.