Lake Dyupkun

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The Djupkunsee (Russian Озеро Дюпкун, Djupkun Ozero ) is a 199 or 212.5 km ² large lake at the Kureika in Putoranagebirge, the northwestern part of the Central Siberian Uplands in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia ( Asia).

Geographical location

The Djupkunsee is on average about 160 km north of the Arctic Circle in the southwest part of the Putoranagebirges. It extends in northeast-southwest direction along the middle reaches of the river Kureika, a tributary of the Jenisseis. While it is fed by this river and many mountain streams is the Kureika his only outlet. The lake is about 90 km long and lies at about 109 m altitude. The mountains on the lake are a maximum of 1353 m (north of the northeastern Seeteils ) high. Neither the lake nor in its vicinity there are settlements.

Flora and Fauna

On the steep and rocky banks of the Djupkunsees thrive boreal coniferous forests, the higher altitudes of the mountains surrounding the lake are determined from the tundra, with its mosses and lichens. In the lake teeming with fish life, for example, grouper fish, pike and salmon fish.

Talnikowy Waterfall

The northeast part of the Djupkunsees, for example, fed by a mountain stream, the crash on the Talnikowy Waterfall, which is one with 482 m drop height to the highest waterfalls of the world.