The Belaya (, in its upper course Юрумкувеем Yurumkuveyem)Юрумкувеем, Great Soviet EncyclopediaСловарь названий гидрографических объектов России и других стран — членов СНГ, Federal Service for Geodesy and Cartography of Russia, 1999, p. 456 is a south-flowing tributary of the Anadyr in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug administrative region of Russia.
Course
The source of the Yurumkuveyem is in the northern Anadyr Mountains.
Its main tributaries are the Bolshoy Pykarvaam, Chaavaam and Bolshaya Osinovaya from the left, and the Enmyvaam, which drains Lake Elgygytgyn, from the right.
Its basin is  and its length is  (487 km from its furthest source, that of the Bolshoy Pykarvaam).Russian State Water Register - Belaya River - Река Белая (в верховье Юрумкувеем) Downstream from its confluence with the Enmyvaam it is named Belaya.
The Belaya flows through sparsely populated areas of Chukotka, flows southwards across the eastern edge of the Anadyr Highlands and the Pekulney Range, and joins with the Enmyvaam in the Parapol-Belsky Lowlands, at the head of the Anadyr Lowlands.
The Belaya meets the Anadyr more than  from its mouth in the mid-lower stretch of its course.
Ust-Belaya village lies at the confluence of the Belaya and Anadyr.
Below the confluence with the Belaya, the Anadyr separates into multiple smaller channels upriver from where the Tanyurer meets it.
The Belaya and its tributaries are frozen for about eight to nine months in a year.
Fauna
A type of whitefish, Coregonus cylindraceus, is common in the waters of the Belaya River.Whitefish
See also
List of rivers of Russia
References
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