Ienisseï

The Ienisseï ( Енисе́й ) is a Fleuve of Siberia in Asia, which is born from the junction of the Grand Ienisseï ( EIB-kem ) and of the Petit Ienisseï ( Khua-kem ), on the north-western plate of the Mongolia - the first born on the southern side of the mounts Saïan by 97° 30 ' E and 52° 20 ' NR, and the second resulting one from the marshes a few kilometers in the west of the Kosso-Gol.

The length of the river is of 4 093 km and the surface of sound Area catchment: 2620000 km ². It is navigable until Minusinsk, over a length of: 2900 km. The river is free per annum of ice on average 155 days with Turukhansk and 196 days between May and November with Krasnoïarsk.

The EIB-kem and Khua-kem run towards the west, but after being itself plain they turn towards north, through the Saïan mounts in the deep throat of Kemchik, according to the meridian 92e, to emerge in the Steppe S with Saïansk (53° 10 ' NR).

Increased by the Abakan on the left and the Touba on the line, it crosses the mine field of Minousinsk, approach to 10 km of the Chulyni, tributary of the Ob and crosses the Transsibérien with Krasnoïarsk. It then receives its principal affluent, the Angara, emissary of the Lac Baïkal, which carries its flow of 3 350 m ³ /s with 8 300 m ³ /s.

After the junction of Angara, the river continues to widen. A channel connects the Grand Kaz, a tributary of Ienisseï, with the Ket, an affluent of Ob. The river receives by the line water of two major affluents, the stony Toungouska and the lower Toungouska.

Ienisseï continues towards the Arctic Ocean, reaching a width of 30 km. Its bed is encumbered by islands. It still receives on the left the Zym, the Touroukhan and the Ingarevka, and on the line the Koureika and the Daneshkina, then it is spread out in its delta.

The populations which had been installed by the Soviet mode left. The majority of the population is consisted starovieri “old believers”, religious community which refused at the 17th century the reforms of the Nikon patriarch and Pierre Large the, and which lives of the products of nature, without drugs nor vaccines for the children.

See too

List of rivers in the tilted world
Plane of Krasnoïarsk

Simple: Yenisei

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