Umba (Kandalaksha Bay)
Umba Умба |
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Water code | RU : 02020000212001000008622 | |
location | Murmansk Oblast ( Russia ) | |
River system | Conversion | |
origin | Lake Umbosero 67 ° 32 ′ 25 ″ N , 34 ° 18 ′ 54 ″ E |
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Source height | 149 m | |
muzzle | to Kandalaksha Bay ( White Sea ) Coordinates: 66 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ N , 34 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E 66 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ N , 34 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E |
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Mouth height | 0 m | |
Height difference | 149 m | |
Bottom slope | 1.2 ‰ | |
length | 123 km | |
Catchment area | 6250 km² | |
Discharge at the Pajalka A Eo gauge : 6920 km² Location: 3.7 km above the mouth |
MNQ 1930/1992 MQ 1930/1992 Mq 1930/1992 MHQ 1930/1992 |
28 m³ / s 80 m³ / s 11.6 l / (s km²) 154 m³ / s |
Left tributaries | Wjala , Muna | |
Right tributaries | Kana | |
Flowing lakes | Kanosero , Pontschosero | |
Umba-Podinza rapids |
The Umba ( Russian Умба ) is a 123 km long river on the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast ( Russia ).
The river has its origin in Lake Umbosero , 100 km northeast of Kandalaksha , between the Chibinen massif and the Lowosero tundra on the Kola peninsula. From there the Umba flows southwards through a hilly forest landscape. There is a change between rapids and calmer river sections. It flows through several lakes, the largest of which is Lake Kanosero ( ⊙ ). It leaves this by means of two drains 5 km apart - the Kiza and the Rodwinga . The latter splits again into another outflow arm, the nisma . Kiza and Rodwinga reunite in Lake Pontschosero ( ⊙ ), where the river is called Umba again . The Nisma joins the main river a few kilometers further downstream. The Umba flows into the Kandalaksha Bay near the Umba settlement . The largest tributary of the Umba is the Wjala , which flows out of the lake Wjalosero and flows into the Umba about 15 km before the mouth. The Umba catchment area covers 6250 km². At Pajalka , 3.7 km from the mouth, the mean discharge is 80 m³ / s.
The Umba is known as a suitable river for salmon fishing. Together with the Warsuga , it was the first river on the Kola Peninsula to be opened up for fishing tourism for foreigners in the early 1990s. However, salmon numbers have declined in recent years - a result of poaching by the local population facing massive unemployment and the easy accessibility of the river by roads along its course.
The Umba is also used for logging .
Web links
- Jussi Soppela - The Distinctive Features of Fishing Tourism on the Kola Peninsula
- Umba in the Small Encyclopedic Dictionary Brockhaus-Efron (russ.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Article Umba in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ a b Umba in the State Water Directory of the Russian Federation (Russian)
- ↑ Conversion at the Pajalka gauge - hydrographic data at R-ArcticNET
- ↑ www.barentsinfo.org ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.