Podkamennaya Tunguska River

The settlement Oscharowo at Stony Tunguska

Course of the Stony Tunguska ( Podkamennaja Tunguska ) in the catchment area of the Yenisei

Catchment area of ​​the Stony Tunguska with tributaries

The Tunguska (Russian Подкаменная Тунгуска, scientific transliteration Podkamennaja Tunguska; (obsolete) also Middle Tunguska, Russian Средняя Тунгуска / Srednjaja Tunguska ) is a 1865 km long ( with source river Katanga ) right or eastern tributary of the Yenisei River in Siberia.

Course

The Tunguska arises in the southern part of the Central Siberian highlands some 400 kilometers north of Bratsk from the confluence (about 245 m) of its two source rivers - Tetere from the right and left of Katanga. Of these, the latter with headwaters ( ⊙ 57.915538104.236865500 ) on the Angararücken the longer flow. About 100 km south-east of the source area of Katanga arises in a wide arc parallel to the Stony Tunguska flowing Lower Tunguska, which opens only 600 km further north in the Yenisei. The Tunguska flows in a northwesterly direction through the central Siberian Plateau and thus by the Tunguska region. Finally it flows north of Jenisseirückens to about 27 m near the village Podkamennaja Tunguska in the Yenisei, a district of the otherworldly, western Yenisei river downstream 4 km Bor settlement

Towns and Tunguska event

At the Stony Tunguska is the place Wanawara, which was known by the Tunguska event, probably caused by a small asteroid explosion, in 1908 about 65 km north- west of the town took place and devastated a vast area.

Hydrographic

The mean monthly runoff of the Stony Tunguska in the driest month of March and most water-rich month of May (only Sulomai ) or June, and their annual mean values ​​are ( in m³ / s):