River
Anabar
939 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Laptev Sea
In numbers
Length
939km
Average flow
500m³/s
Basin
100,000km²
Drop
772m
from 587 m to -185 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
939 km of river and 7 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 587 m
- 507 kmMalaya Kuonamkatributary
- 525 kmEbelyakhtributary
- 580 kmMayattributary
- 635 kmUdyatributary
- 761 kmSrednyayatributary
- 793 kmKonniyestributary
- 877 kmSuolamatributary
- 939 kmLaptev Seaat -185 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Yakutia, Russia
At the mouth it carries 498 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 5.0 seconds. It drops from 587 m to -185 m, 0.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 100,000 km², about the size of KR. 2,042 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from June to August; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Saskylakh Airport (SYS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 146 km from the city
- JulyThe best months to visit
Anabar, month by month
Highest water: from June to August
Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from October to April. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: July.
From about 27 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,500 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Anabar: the basin in numbers
89,819 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2,042people live in the basin
- 0/km²people per km²
- 190maverage altitude of the basin
- 253mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -13.4°Caverage air temperature
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 100%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 24% Forest
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Anabar in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (8)
Also: Malaya Kuonamka, Suolama, Udya, Konniyes, Kharabyl, Ebelyakh, Mayat, Srednyaya
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q82187) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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