Kamchatka (river)

The Kamchatka (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 758 km long, and has a drainage basin of 55900 km2. The river is rich with salmon, millions of which spawn yearly and which once supported the settlements of the native Itelmen.

Climate
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.