Anabar
Anabar is a mapped river in the YearMaps hydrographic index. River courses organise settlement, agriculture and frontier-making more durably than any political boundary, and this reach is indexed against the dams, lakes and cities within its catchment.
- Feature Class
- River
- Coordinates
- 71.37°, 113.81°
About Anabar
The Anabar (Russian: Анабар, romanized: Anabar, in its upper course: Большая Куонамка Bolshaya Kuonamka; Yakut: Анаабыр, romanized: Anaabır) is a river in Sakha, Russia. It is 380 kilometres (240 mi) long (939 km (583 mi) counting the 559 km (347 mi) long Bolshaya Kuonamka ("Big Kuonamka") stretch of its upper course) and has a drainage basin of 100,000 square kilometres (39,000 sq mi).
Encyclopedic summary adapted from Wikipedia: Anabar (river) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Anabar in Depth
Course
The Anabar is formed at the confluence of the Malaya Kuonamka and Bolshaya Kuonamka at the edge of the North Siberian Lowland. The length of the Anabar proper is 380 km (240 mi). The two rivers forming it have their sources in the northeastern part of the Anabar Plateau, part of the Central Siberian Plateau. There are many lakes in its basin.
The Anabar basin is located between rivers Khatanga and Olenyok. The mouth of the river is in the Anabar Bay. Its mean annual discharge is 564 cubic metres per second (19,900 cu ft/s), concentrated heavily in early summer when the ice that covers the river for most of the year thaws. The Uele river flows into the Laptev Sea close to the mouth of the Anabar, but it is not its tributary.
History
Historically Evenks have inhabited the basin of the Anabar River. Vasiliy Sychev was the first Russian to reach the river in 1643.
In present times the basin of the Anabar river is notable as the location of the largest concentration of diamond deposits in the world outside of Africa and Australia. These deposits made the Soviet Union into one of the world's largest producers of diamonds, and remain the economic mainstay of the area.
Sections adapted from Wikipedia: Anabar (river) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Anabar: Key Facts
| Length | 939 km |
|---|---|
| Average discharge | 498 m³/s |
| Drainage basin | 100,000 km² |
| Mouth | Laptev Sea |
| Tributaries | Suolama, Malaya Kuonamka, Konniyes, Kharabyl, Ebelyakh, Mayat, Udya |
Facts from Wikidata Q82187 (CC0).
Major River Dossiers
Hand-written studies of the great river systems of history.
Connected Reaches
Nearby watercourses in the same drainage network.
Water Bodies in the Catchment
Settlements Along the Reach
Hydraulic Infrastructure Nearby
Surrounding Terrain
Anabar: Quick Answers
- Where is Anabar?
- Anabar is located in Russia, at 71.3733° N, 113.8098° E.
- Are there dams on the Anabar?
- No dam on the Anabar is recorded in the YearMaps dam index, which covers major structures only.