Malaya Kuonamka

The Malaya Kuonamka (Малая Куонамка; Кыра Куонамка, Kıra Kuonamka) is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is a right tributary of the Anabar with a length of 457 km. Its drainage basin area is 24800 km2.

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.

Course
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 375 m in the eastern side of the Anabar Plateau. Together with the 559 km 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, 380 km from its mouth in the Laptev Sea.

The river is fed by rain and snow. It is frozen between late September and late May. The longest tributaries are the 223 km long Usumuun (Усумуун), the 217 km long Delinde (Дьэлиндэ), as well as the 198 km long Maspaaki (Маспаакы) from the right.

Fauna
The main fish species in the river are grayling, taimen and whitefish.