| Malaya Kuonamka | |
| Other Name: | Малая Куонамка / Кыра Куонамка |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 69.4247°N 112.2511°W |
| Source1 Elevation: | 375m (1,230feet) |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 70.7711°N 113.3369°W |
| Mouth Elevation: | 16m (52feet) |
| Length: | 457km (284miles) |
| Basin Size: | 24800km2 |
| Pushpin Map: | Russia Sakha Republic#Russia |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Mouth location in Yakutia, Russia |
The Malaya Kuonamka (Russian: Малая Куонамка; Yakut: Кыра Куонамка, Kıra Kuonamka) is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is a right tributary of the Anabar with a length of 457km (284miles). Its drainage basin area is 24800km2.
The river flows north of the Arctic Circle, in the northern limits of the Central Siberian Plateau and the North Siberian Lowland. The area is very cold and desolate, devoid of settlements.
The Kuonamka Formation is a Cambrian large igneous province in the northeastern Siberian platform.[1]
The Malaya Kuonamka "Little Kuonamka" is the second largest tributary of the Anabar. The river has its source in an elevated swamp at an altitude of 375m (1,230feet) in the eastern side of the Anabar Plateau. Together with the 559km (347miles) long Bolshaya Kuonamka "Big Kuonamka" to the west, it is one of the two rivers that form the Anabar at their confluence. In their last stretch both rivers flow roughly northwards. Finally they meet where the Anabar river proper begins, 380km (240miles) from its mouth in the Laptev Sea.[2] [3] [4]
The river is fed by rain and snow. It is frozen between late September and late May. The longest tributaries are the 223km (139miles) long Usumuun (Усумуун), the 217km (135miles) long Delinde (Дьэлиндэ), as well as the 198km (123miles) long Maspaaki (Маспаакы) from the right.
The main fish species in the river are grayling, taimen and whitefish.[5]
