Kamchatka (river)
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The Kamchatka (Template:Langx) is the longest river in Kamchatka peninsula, located in Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East. It flows into the Pacific Ocean at the town Ust-Kamchatsk, on the east coast of Kamchatka. It is Template:Convert long, and has a drainage basin of Template:Convert.<ref name=gvr>Template:GVR</ref> The river is rich with salmon, millions of which spawn yearly and which once supported the settlements of the native Itelmen.<ref>Map 3.7 (Kamchatka) Template:Webarchive from the series prepared for the INSROP (International Northern Sea Route Programme) Working Paper No. 90 Template:Webarchive in 1997.</ref>
ClimateEdit
Like most of its namesake peninsula, the basin of the Kamchatka River has at low altitudes a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc) with short, cool-to-comfortable summers and freezing, snowy winters. Template:Weather box
ReferencesEdit
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