River
Podkamennaya Tunguska
1,865 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Yenisei
In numbers
Length
1,865km
Average flow
1,600m³/s
Basin
240,000km²
Drop
589m
from 502 m to -87 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,865 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 502 m
- 510 kmTeteretributary
- 787 kmPorog Miryuginskiy
- 955 kmKamotributary
- 1,123 kmChunyatributary
- 1,236 kmPorog Babushka
- 1,243 kmPorog Dedushka
- 1,360 kmPorog Bol'shoy
- 1,410 kmVelmotributary
- 1,451 kmShivera Karga
- 1,865 kmYeniseiat -87 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Krasnoyarsk Krai and Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
At the mouth it carries 1,587 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.6 seconds. It drops from 502 m to -87 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 240,000 km², about the size of GH. 13,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from May 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
- BorLargest city on its banks · 2,300 people
- On the water5 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe5 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Podkamennaya Tunguska, month by month
Highest water: from May 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: from June to August.
From about 370 m³/s in the lowest month to 6,700 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
Podkamennaya Tunguska: the basin in numbers
237,673 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 13,000people live in the basin
- 0/km²people per km²
- 396maverage altitude of the basin
- 482mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -6.6°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 71%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 94% 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
Podkamennaya Tunguska: what you find on the way
- 5Rapids
- 5Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Podkamennaya Tunguska in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
5waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
Waterfalls (5)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Porog Miryuginskiykm 743
- Porog Babushkakm 1,167
- Porog Dedushkakm 1,173
- Porog Bol'shoykm 1,284
- Shivera Kargakm 1,370
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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
Podkamennaya Tunguska in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
YeniseiRussia3,487 km19,800 m³/sTributaries (16)
Also: Velmo, Chunya, Kamo, Tetere, Ayava, Bol'shaya Chërnaya, Bol'shaya Lebyazh'ya, Chamba, Tayga, Yengida, Soba, Stolbovaya, Yudolomo, Turama, Kondromo, Oskoba
In the same basin
MongoliaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q26361) · 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 | Cascadyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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