River
Kamchatka River
758 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Kamchatka Bay
In numbers
Length
758km
Average flow
920m³/s
Basin
55,900km²
Drop
659m
from 657 m to -2 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
758 km of river and 33 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 657 m
- 74 kmSanopadtributary
- 132 kmKavychatributary
- 134 kmAndrianovkatributary
- 147 kmMil’kovo8,251 people
- 159 kmMalaya Vakhminatributary
- 173 kmKirganiktributary
- 219 kmBolshaya Kimitinatributary
- 237 kmKitilginatributary
- 265 kmUrtstributary
- 312 kmSchapinatributary
- 386 kmTolbachiktributary
- 403 kmBystrayatributary
- 403 kmKozyrëvkatributary
- 425 kmStudyonayatributary
- 427 kmKrapivnayatributary
- 443 kmKakhtuntributary
- 472 kmUshki0.9 km²
- 473 kmKreruktributary
- 490 kmKryukitributary
- 501 kmPolovinnayatributary
- 534 kmBelayatributary
- 554 kmKelmarktributary
- 560 kmElovkatributary
- 575 kmKlyuchi10,000 people
- 584 kmOzero Kurazhechnoye21 km²
- 606 kmBolshaya Khapitsatributary
- 643 kmIlchinetstributary
- 670 kmAzhabachye Lake65 km²
- 675 kmOzero Krasikovskoye1.3 km²
- 675 kmRadugatributary
- 678 kmOzero Kursinka2.5 km²
- 684 kmOzero Khvalenskoye0.5 km²
- 690 kmOzero Kulik0.4 km²
- 758 kmKamchatka Bayat -2 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Kamchatka, Russia
At the mouth it carries 924 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 2.7 seconds. It drops from 657 m to -2 m, 0.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 55,900 km², about the size of HR. 18,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from May to June; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- KlyuchiLargest city on its banks · 10,000 people
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From July to AugustThe best months to visit
Kamchatka River, month by month
Highest water: from May to June
Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from July to August.
From about 230 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,800 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
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The basin
Kamchatka River: the basin in numbers
53,172 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 18,000people live in the basin
- 0/km²people per km²
- 547maverage altitude of the basin
- 780mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -3.3°Caverage air temperature
- 11%protected areas
- 0.6%covered by lakes
- 25%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 43% 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.
Along the river
Kamchatka River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 4Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Kamchatka River in our other atlases
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7lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (7)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ushkikm 4210.9km²
- Ozero Kurazhechnoyekm 52021km²
- Azhabachye Lakekm 597 · 33 m deep65km²
- Ozero Krasikovskoyekm 6011.3km²
- Ozero Kursinkakm 6052.5km²
- Ozero Khvalenskoyekm 6100.5km²
- Ozero Kulikkm 6150.4km²
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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
Kamchatka River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (64)
Also: Bystraya, Elovka, Kozyrëvka, Tolbachik, Bolshaya Kimitina, Kavycha, Kelmark, Pindra, Raduga, Schapina, Andrianovka, Bersh, Bolshaya Khapitsa, Ilchinets, Kirganik, Kitilgina, Kozyrevskaya, Kolycheva, Kreruk, Maksimovka, Polovinnaya, Yukolka, Studyonaya, Amsharik
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q133476) · 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 |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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