Kengeede


The Kengeede, also spelled as Kengede, Kengyade or Kende, is a river in Yakutia and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is the second longest tributary of the Arga-Sala, of the Olenyok basin, and has a length of and a drainage basin area of.
The river basin is a lonely, desolate area devoid of settlements.

Course

The Kengeede is a left tributary of the Arga-Sala. Its sources are in the southern end of the Anabar Plateau, south of the basin of the Bolshaya Kuonamka. The river flows roughly southwards, to the east of the Kyuyonelekeen. It heads across mountainous taiga areas with rapids and riffles in numerous sections. In its upper course it bends eastwards, then for a stretch northeastwards, and then again southwards, heading in that direction for the remainder of its course. Finally it joins the left bank of the Arga-Sala river from its mouth, not far upstream of Olenyok village, Olenyoksky District, one of the few inhabited localities of the area.
The river is frozen between the first half of October and late May or early June.

Tributaries

Its main tributaries are the long Talakhtaakh, the long Osur, the long Tokur and the long Budurkhai from the left, as well as the long Kuraanakh and the long Kharaap from the right.