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Kamchatka River

The 416th longest river in the world

758 km

The Kamchatka (́) 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 758 kilometres (471 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 55,900 square kilometres (21, 600 sq mi). The river is rich with salmon, millions of which spawn yearly and which once supported the settlements of the native Itelmen.

Flows through: Russia.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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