The Khatyrka (; ; ) is a river in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The length of the river is and the area of its drainage basin is .
The name of the river comes from the Chukot watyrkan (ватыркан), meaning 'a dry, depleted place'.Leontiev V.V., Novikova K.A. Toponymic dictionary of the North-East of the USSR / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovshchikov; FEB AS USSR . North-East complex. Research Institute. Lab. archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magadan . book. publishing house, 1989. - S. 290. - 456 p. — ISBN 5-7581-0044-7 .
Course The Khatyrka has its source in the Koryak Highlands. It first flows in an ENE direction along the northern slopes of the Komeutyuyam Range as a mountain river within a narrow valley. It bends to the SSE at the northeastern end of the range and the valley expands, the river dividing into channels. In its lower course it flows along a marshy floodplain. A stretch of the river forms the border with the Olyutorsky District of Kamchatka Krai. Its mouth is in an estuary that is separated by a narrow landspit from the Bering Sea. Khatyrka village lies at the mouth of the estuary.Google EarthWater of Russia - Хатырка
Tributaries
The main tributary of the Khatyrka is the long Iomrautvaam (Иомраутваам), joining it from the right. A unique-type of meteoriteCosmic sleuthing: An origin story for a really weird meteorite fell in the area of the Iomrautvaam river basin and was buried in a 7,000-year-old layer of dirt. It was found during an expedition to Chukotka in the summer of 2011.Khatyrka meteorite, Iomrautvaam - Mindat.org
Flora and fauna The river basin is characterized by tundra vegetation, including mosses, lichens, dwarf shrubs, and sedges.V. Yu. Neshataeva, Vegetation cover of the North of the Kamchatka Okrug (Kamchatsky Krai) and its geobotanical zoning // Ecology and geography of plants and plant communities: Proceedings of the IV International Scientific Conference. - Yekaterinburg, 2018. - April 16. — ISBN 978-5-7741-0341-6
The inhabitants of the area are engaged in reindeer herding. River Khatyrka is a good place for fishing. Among the fish species found in the waters of the river the pink salmon, chum salmon, sockeye salmon and Chinook salmon deserve mention.
See also Khatyrkite List of rivers of Russia
References
External links Astronomy.com - An old meteor yields a new surprise: a never-before-seen material Collisions in outer space produced an icosahedral phase in the Khatyrka meteorite never observed previously in the laboratory Khatyrka meteorite found to have third quasicrystal The Penzhina-West Kamchatka folded zone and the Ukelayat-Sredinnyi block in the structure of the Koryak Highland and Kamchatka