Pegtymel
Location of the Pegtymel course
Location
CountryRussia
Physical characteristics
MouthEast Siberian Sea
 • coordinates
69°54′11″N 173°52′03″E / 69.9031°N 173.8675°E / 69.9031; 173.8675
Length345 km (214 mi)
Basin size17,600 km2 (6,800 sq mi)

The Pegtymel (Russian: Пегтымель) is a river in Far East Siberia, Russia. It is 345 kilometres (214 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 17,600 square kilometres (6,800 sq mi).[1] It passes through the sparsely populated areas of the Siberian tundra and flows into the East Siberian Sea west of the Long Strait. Its mouth is between Cape Shelagsky on Chaunskaya Bay and Cape Billings to the east. Its most important tributary is the Kuvet which joins it from the right side.

The Pegtymel and its tributaries belong to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug administrative region of Russia.

There are ancient rock paintings on a site close to the Pegtymel. The petroglyphs show boats, reindeer hunting, and mushroom-headed figures likely representing a ritual with th hallucinognic mushroom fly agaric (Amanita muscaria).[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "Река Пегтымель (Рапылькатын) in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).
  2. ↑ Skarbo, Svetlana (14 September 2021). "Whale hunting and magic mushroom people of 2,000-year-old Eurasia's northernmost art gallery". The Siberian Times. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  3. ↑ Millman, Lawrence (2019), Fungipedia : a brief compendium of mushroom lore, Al Kessel, [Old Saybrook (Conn.)], ISBN 978-1-5159-4605-2, OCLC 1141092436, retrieved 2022-11-18{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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