Karpungveyem [2] - a river in the north of the Russian Far East , flows through the territory of the Chaunsky district of the Chukotka Autonomous Region . The river is 40 km long [2] .
| Karpungway | |
|---|---|
| chuck. Erpunweem | |
| Characteristic | |
| Length | 40 km |
| Watercourse | |
| Source | |
| β’ Location | Chaun Lowland |
| β’ Coordinates | |
| Mouth | Palyavaam |
| β’ Coordinates | |
| Location | |
| Water system | Palyavaam β Chaun β East Siberian Sea |
| A country |
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| Region | Chukotka Autonomous Okrug |
| Area | Chaunsky district |
| HWR code | |
 - source  - mouth | |
The name is translated from Chuk. Erpunveem - "river flowing from Mount Karpung." In turn, the oronim Karpung , according to one version, is translated from Yukagir as βhillβ, according to another it is named for the Chukchi buried here [3] .
It takes its sources near a hill 560 m high, flows northward, surrounded by marshes of the Chaun Lowland , in the lower reaches sharply turns to the west until it flows into Palyavam on the left [4] .
Tributaries : Lonely, Abrupt, Grassy.
Water registry data
According to the State Water Register of Russia, it belongs to the Anadyro-Kolyma Basin District [2] .
Notes
- β Surface Water Resources of the USSR: Hydrological Understanding. T. 19. Northeast / ed. Yu. N. Komarnitskaya. - L .: Gidrometeoizdat, 1966 .-- 602 p.
- β 1 2 3 State Water Register . Karpungwayem River . textual.ru . Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia (March 29, 2009). Date of treatment December 20, 2018. Archived March 29, 2009.
- β Leontyev V.V. , Novikova K.A. Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovschikov ; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institutes. Lab archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince Publishing House , 1989 .-- S. 184. - 456 p. - 15,000 copies. - ISBN 5-7581-0044-7 .
- β Map sheet R-59-XXIX, XXX Komsomolsky . Scale: 1: 200,000. Terrain condition for 1981. 1988 edition