A lot of amazing things can be seen in these magnificent and rich in various natural phenomena regions of Russia. This wonderful corner of the earth is called Kamchatka. Here are concentrated the most diverse landscapes, vegetation and the most amazing animals.
And about where the Kamchatka River is located, what its features are and what natural wonders it is rich in, can be found in this article.
Location of the Kamchatka Peninsula, description
The peninsula is washed by the Sea of Okhotsk from the west, the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean from the east.
Kamchatka is located on the border of the Eurasian continent and one of the greatest oceans of the planet. All this affects the formation of a diverse relief of the territory, climate and the distribution of the world of animals and vegetation. In this unique place, as in no other corner of Russia, the most amazing and vivid natural phenomena are concentrated.
Here are ancient volcanoes (active and extinct), mineral hot and cold springs, rarely found all over the world water basins of glacial, tectonic and volcanic origin. Amid all such splendor, the beautiful Kamchatka (river) flows here.
Description of the river: geographical location
Kamchatka is the largest river located on the peninsula of the same name. And it flows into the Bering Sea of the Pacific Ocean through the Kamchatka Gulf. The total length of the river is 758 kilometers, and its basin extends over a vast territory with an area of 55.9 thousand km².
Kamchatka is a river, diverse in relief of its channel. The upper course has a faster mountain character, in its channel there are a large number of rifts and rapids. In the central part, the river flows into the Central Kamchatka lowland and changes the character of its course to a more calm one. Here the channel is quite winding and in some places it diverges into the sleeves.
In the course of the lower river, it goes around the Klyuchevskaya Sopka (massif) and turns east, where in the lower reaches it crosses the Kumroch ridge.
At the very mouth of the river, a delta is formed, which consists of numerous channels. At the point where Kamchatka flows into the sea, it is connected by the Ozernaya channel with the largest Nerpichy lake on the island.
Throughout the course, many islands are located on the river. For the most part they are low, sandy, almost bare or slightly overgrown with tall grass or small willow.
The Kamchatka River is amazing and interesting. Description of all its unique natural attractions in one article is simply impossible.
Tributaries, source, settlements
The river has several tributaries, both right and left. Among them, the largest: Kensol, Zhulanka, Andrianovka and Kozyrevka - left; Urz, Kitilgina - the right.
At the mouth of the river there is a village with the port of Ust-Kamchatsk. Also on the banks of the river are small villages Klyuchi and Milkovo.
Where is the source of the river? Kamchatka has two sources: the left (Lake Kamchatka), starting at the Sredinny Range; right (right Kamchatka), located in the eastern ridge. They are found in the area of the Ganal tundra and together form the beginning of a magnificent river.
Flora of Kamchatka
The vegetation of the entire peninsula was influenced by a number of factors, such as the geographical location of the territory, mountainous terrain (mainly), the impact of a humid climate due to the close proximity of the ocean, the peculiarities of the history of the formation of landscapes, the strong influence of volcanism, etc.
Coniferous forests (larch and spruce) are widespread in the central part. Also here, birch and aspen grow along with them.
In Kamchatka, the richest and most diverse in terms of vegetation are floodplain forests. In them you can meet hairy alder, fragrant poplar, willow, chosenia, etc.
Kamchatka is a river, the coastal part of which is replete with a wide variety of types of vegetation. The banks of the upper and middle reaches of the river are an excellent forest, represented by poplar, fir, larch, interspersed with willow, alder, hawthorn and other vegetation. The lower bank of the river is already more swampy and covered with grass, shallow willow and horsetail.
River fauna
Kamchatka is a river rich in rare and valuable fish species. This is the place for spawning of many of the most magnificent breeds, including chum, pink salmon and chinook salmon (salmon). This happens in late summer. Seals and belugas come to the Nerpichye Lake and at the mouth of the Kamchatka River.
Both amateur and industrial fishing is conducted in these places.
Aquatic flora
The main vegetation of the bottom of the river and the sea are commercial algae of several species. In connection with a sufficient number of stocks, specialized fishing is not carried out.
Birds and animals
The fauna is extremely diverse not only in the territory of the river in question, but also in the entire Kamchatka Territory.
Among the birds, of which there are so many (about two hundred and twenty species), there are gulls, cormorants, hatchets, Pacific chicks, guillemots, etc. You can also find ravens, magpies, wagtails, pine nuts, partridges, etc.
The fauna of the coastal part consists of: ermine, Kamchatka sable, otter, muskrat, white hare, elk, reindeer, lynx, fox, bighorn sheep, wolverine, polar wolf, weasel and many others. Of the largest forest animals in the forest zone, the famous Kamchatka brown bear can be noted.
