Nizhneye Kuito
Nizhneye Kuito Нижнее Куйто , Ala-Kuittijärvi |
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Location of the Nizhneje Kuito in the catchment area of the Kem | |||||||
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Coordinates | 64 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ N , 31 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | ||||||
Data on the structure | |||||||
Construction time: | 1956 | ||||||
Height above the river bed : | 33 m | ||||||
Data on the reservoir | |||||||
Altitude (at congestion destination ) | 100 m | ||||||
Water surface | 141 km² | ||||||
Reservoir length | 30.4 km | ||||||
Reservoir width | 7.5 km | ||||||
Catchment area | 10 300 km² |
Nizhneje Kuito ( Russian Ни́жнее Ку́йто "Lower Kuito", Finnish Ala-Kuittijärvi ) is a lake in the Republic of Karelia in northwestern Russia . The lake is the lowest and most easterly in the Kuito three-part system . The outflow of the lake has been regulated since 1956. The Kem River drains the lake eastward to the White Sea .
The Nizhneje Kuito has an area of 141 km². Its length is 30.4 km, its maximum width 7.5 km. The maximum depth is 33 m, the average depth 9.4 m. The catchment area is 10,300 km².
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article Kuito in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ lesder.ru - Kuito (Russian)
- ↑ Kem at the Jurjachmja gauge - hydrographic data from R-ArcticNET