Kureika River

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Position of Kureika ( Курейка ) in the catchment area of the Yenisei

The Kureika (Russian Курейка, scientific transliteration Kureyka ) is an approximately 888 km long tributary of the Yenisei in Krasnoyarsk, each in the north of Siberia and Russia ( Asia).

Course

The Kureika rises about 205 km north of the Arctic Circle on the Putoranaplateau, the central part of the Putoranagebirges that represents the northwestern part of the Central Siberian Uplands. In its upper and middle course it flows through the southern and south-western mountainous parts - exclusively through uninhabited areas. Initially, it extends southwards to the influence of the current flowing through the Jadunsee Jadun and then in a north- northwesterly direction, it runs a little later by the elongated Anamasee. Some further north you water falls over the approximately 13 -meter-high Great Kureika Waterfall ( ⊙ 68.3070194.281 ).

A little further north bends the Kureika, the inflow of Jagtali, to the west and flows through the equally elongated Djupkunsee, the bends in the river valley to the southwest. In the lake, the river of many mountain streams fed by waterfalls, including also that of Talnikowy waterfall. Some further southwest it passes through the bays and islands rich Kureikastausee whose dam is at Swetlogorsk. In this region the Putoranagebirge passes into Ostausläufer of the West Siberian Lowland.

About 100 km downstream of the dam after it the Arctic Circle crosses southwestward flowing, opens the Kureika to only 3 m in the Yenisei River, which flows 863 kilometers of river further downstream in the Kara Sea ( Arctic Ocean ); its mouth west opposite the village Kureika.

Hydrographic and navigability

The catchment area of ​​44,700 km ² comprises Kureika, their mean discharge ( MQ ) is 664 m³ / s The river has many rapids and also also waterfalls, such as the already mentioned Kureika Great Falls. It is navigable below the Kureikastausees to its mouth and in the reservoir area.

Floating ice and flood

The Kureika is covered every year from the middle of October to the end of May of ice. If then thaw the permafrost in the region and melt ice and snow, large tracts of land the river banks are hit by severe floods.