| Angara | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Russia |
| Regions | Irkutsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Lake Baikal |
| • location | Baykal, Irkutsk Oblast |
| • coordinates | 51°52′01″N 104°49′05″E / 51.867°N 104.818°E |
| • elevation | 389 m (1,276 ft) |
| Mouth | Yenisey |
• location | Lesosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai |
• coordinates | 58°06′07″N 92°59′28″E / 58.102°N 92.991°E |
• elevation | 75 m (246 ft) |
| Length | 1,849 km (1,149 mi)[1] to 1,779 km (1,105 mi)[2] |
| Basin size | 1,039,000 km2 (401,000 sq mi)[1] to 1,056,000 km2 (408,000 sq mi)[2] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Confluence of the Yenisey (near mouth) |
| • average | 4,530 m3/s (160,000 cu ft/s) to 4,980 m3/s (176,000 cu ft/s)[2] |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Yenisey→ Kara Sea |
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The Angara (Russian: Ангара́, [ənɡɐˈra]; Buryat: Ангар, Angar, lit. "Cleft"[citation needed]) is a major river in Siberia, which traces a course through Russia's Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai. It drains out of Lake Baikal and is the headwater tributary of the Yenisey.[3] It is 1,849 kilometres (1,149 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 1,039,000 square kilometres (401,000 sq mi).[1] It was formerly known as the Lower or Nizhnyaya Angara (distinguishing it from the Upper Angara).[4] Below its junction with the Ilim, it was formerly known as the Upper Tunguska (Russian: Верхняя Тунгуска, Verhnyaya Tunguska, distinguishing it from the Lower Tunguska)[5][6] and, with the names reversed, as the Lower Tunguska.[7]
- ^ a b c "Река Ангара in the State Water Register of Russia". verum.wiki (in Russian).
- ^ a b c "Yenisey River".
- ^ "Angara River". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 2006-10-26.
- ^ EB (1878).
- ^ ВЕРХНЯЯ ТУНГУСКА (Verkhnyaya Tunguska, in the dictionary of Russia's place names).
- ^ Tunguska, in Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
- ^ See, e.g., the 1773 Kitchen map above.