Pegtymel

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| name = Pegtymel

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| map = Chukchi Sea5PGT.png

| map_caption = Location of the Pegtymel course

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| mouth = East Siberian Sea

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| subdivision_type1 = Country

| subdivision_name1 = Russia

| length = {{convert|345|km|abbr=on}}

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| basin_size = {{convert|17600|km2|abbr=on}}

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The Pegtymel ({{langx|ru|Пегтымель}}) is a river in Far East Siberia, Russia. It is {{convert|345|km}} long, and has a drainage basin of {{convert|17600|km2}}.{{GVR|272220|Река Пегтымель (Рапылькатын)}} It passes through the sparsely populated areas of the Siberian tundra and flows into the East Siberian Sea west of the Long Strait. Its mouth is between Cape Shelagsky on Chaunskaya Bay and Cape Billings to the east. Its most important tributary is the Kuvet which joins it from the right side.

The Pegtymel and its tributaries belong to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug administrative region of Russia.

There are ancient rock paintings on a site close to the Pegtymel. The petroglyphs show boats, reindeer hunting, and mushroom-headed figures likely representing a ritual with the hallucinogenic mushroom fly agaric (Amanita muscaria).{{Cite news |last=Skarbo |first=Svetlana |date=14 September 2021 |title=Whale hunting and magic mushroom people of 2,000-year-old Eurasia's northernmost art gallery |work=The Siberian Times |url=https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/whale-hunting-and-magic-mushroom-people-of-2000-year-old-eurasias-northernmost-art-gallery/ |access-date=18 November 2022}}{{Citation |last=Millman |first=Lawrence |title=Fungipedia : a brief compendium of mushroom lore |date=2019 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1141092436 |others=Al Kessel |place=[Old Saybrook (Conn.)] |isbn=978-1-5159-4605-2 |oclc=1141092436 |access-date=2022-11-18}}