| Kamchatka | |
| Pushpin Map: | Russia |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of mouth |
| Mouth: | Pacific Ocean |
| Mouth Location: | Ust-Kamchatsk |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 56.2032°N 162.4844°W |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Russia |
| Length: | 758km (471miles) |
| Basin Size: | 55900km2 |
The Kamchatka (Russian: Камча́тка) 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 long, and has a drainage basin of . The river is rich with salmon, millions of which spawn yearly and which once supported the settlements of the native Itelmen.[1]
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.
