Key facts
- Native name
- Пинега ( Russian )
- Country
- Russia
- Mouth
- Northern Dvina
- Length
- 779 km (484 mi)
- Basin size
- 42,600 km (16,400 sq mi)
- Average
- 430 cubic metres per second (15,000 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- ‹See Tfd› Northern Dvina → White Sea
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Пинега - panoramio.jpg
- Length
- 779
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- Commons category
- Pinega River
- watershed area
- 42000
- discharge
- 430
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The Northern Dvina River basin. The map shows the Pinega The Pinega (Пинега) is a river in Verkhnetoyemsky, Pinezhsky, and Kholmogorsky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Northern Dvina. It is 779 kilometres (484 mi) long, and the area of its basin 42,600 square kilometres (16,400 sq mi). Its main tributaries are the Ilesha, the Vyya, the Yula, the Pokshenga, and the Yozhuga.
The Pinega is the main waterway of the Pinezhsky District, with many of the settlements in the district located on the river banks. The river basin includes the north-western part of the Krasnoborsky District, the eastern part of the Verkhnetoyemsky District, the eastern part of the Vinogradovsky District, the major part of the Pinezhsky District, the eastern part of the Kholmogorsky District, and minor areas in the Leshukonsky District and in the Udorsky District of the Komi Republic. The Pinega flows in the hilly landscape, on the western border of the Timan Ridge, in the coniferous forest (taiga). It freezes up in mid October or early November and stays under the ice until mid April or early May.