Paratunka (river)
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Paratunka Паратунка |
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| Water code | RU : 19070000212120000023206 | |
| location | Kamchatka ( Russia ) | |
| River system | Paratunka | |
| Headwaters | north of Gorely volcano 52 ° 38 ′ 18 ″ N , 158 ° 3 ′ 17 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 800 m | |
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Avacha Bay ( Pacific Ocean ) Coordinates: 52 ° 59 ′ 14 " N , 158 ° 24 ′ 41" E 52 ° 59 ′ 14 " N , 158 ° 24 ′ 41" E |
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| Mouth height | 0 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 800 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 9.9 ‰ | |
| length | 81 km | |
| Catchment area | 1500 km² | |
| Left tributaries | Bystraja | |
| Communities | Paratunka | |
The Paratunka ( Russian Паратунка ) is an 81 km long tributary of the Pacific Ocean on the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka .
River course
The Paratunka rises at an altitude of about 800 m north of the Gorely volcano . From there it flows mainly in a northerly direction. The 2173 m high volcano Vilyuchinskaya Sopka rises east of the river. The village of Paratunka lies west of the lower reaches. For the last 15 kilometers the river turns east and finally south. It flows into the west bank of Avacha Bay . On the opposite side of the bay is the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky , further north is the mouth of the Avacha River .
The catchment area of the Paratunka covers about 1500 km². The two smaller lakes Blischneje and Dalneje lie east of the lower reaches and are drained towards Paratunka.
Fish fauna
In the Paratunka u. a. the following species of fish: pink salmon , chum salmon , rainbow trout and Salvelinus white-spotted charr .
The endemic char Salvelinus krogiusae occurs in Lake Dalneje, a 1.3 km² large and up to 60 m deep lake in the Paratunka catchment area .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Паратунка in the State Water Register of the Russian Federation (Russian)
- ↑ 613: Kamchatka & Northern Kurils . Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (FEOW). Retrieved December 15, 2018.