The Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America.About 2,320 miles (3,730 km) long, the river originates at Lake Itasca, Minnesota, and flows slowly southwards in sweeping meanders, terminating 95 miles (153 km).

Sunday, July 10, 2011

History Of The Irtysh River

A series of Mongolia and Turkic peoples occupied the river for centuries. In the ages 15 and 16, the middle and lower river flows into the Irtysh Tatar khanate of Sibir, which beat the Russians in the 1580s. In the 17th century, the Khanate Zunghar formed by the people of Mongolia Oirat became Russia's southern neighbor, and controlled the upper Irtysh. The Russians founded the city of Omsk in 1716 in 1718 in Semipalatinsk, Ust-Kamenogorsk in 1720, and Petropavlovsk in 1752. Chinese Qing Empire State Zunghar conquered in the 1750s. The border between the Russian and Qing empires (the current border between Russia and Kazakhstan and Mongolia...

Economic use, Irtysh River

Tankers and passenger ships and cargo navigate the river between April and October, when it freezes. Omsk, which houses the headquarters of state-owned Irtysh shipping functions as the largest river port in western Siberia. Large hydro plants in Ust-Kamenogorsk and Bakhtarminsk use the Irtysh near the border between Kazakhstan and China. Deepest lock in the world with a drop of 42 meters, allowing river traffic to bypass the dam in Ust-Kemenogorsk. The north side of the river, turning the proposals discussed at length in 1960 and 1970, would see the direction of the flow and distribution of water in the Irtysh facing Central Kazakhstan and...

Geography of Irtysh River

From its origins as Kara-Irtysh (Black Irtysh) and Mongolia Altai Mountains in Xinjiang, China, Irtysh flows through the north-west of Lake Zaysan Kazakhstan Tobol rivers meet and merge Ishim first Ob near Khanty-Mansiysk in western Siberia , Russia after 4248 km (2640 miles...

Irtysh River

Irtysh ( Russia: Иртыш, Kazakhstan: Ertisa / Ертiс, Tatar Cyrillic: Иртеш, America: IRTE, Chinese: É'ěrqísī he / 额尔齐斯河) Mongol: Эрчис is a river in Siberia and is the chief tributary of the Ob River . Its name means White River. Irtysh is the main tributary of Tobol. The Ob-Irtysh form of a large swimming pool in Asia, which covers most of western Siberia and the Altai Mountain...

Human Use Of The Ob River

The Ob is mainly used for irrigation, drinking water, hydropower and fisheries, the river has more than 50 species of fish. Navigable waters of the Ob basin reach a total length of 9300 miles (15,000 km). The importance of shipping to transport the Ob basin was particularly high before the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway, as, despite the generally south-north direction of the flow of most of Ob and its tributaries, the width of the Ob basin waiting (somewhat indirectly) of transport in the east-west direction as well. Until the early 20th century, an important river port in western Tyumen is located along the river Tura, a tributary...

Geography, Ob River

Ob forms 16 miles (26 km) southwest of the Altai Krai in Biysk at the confluence of the Biya and Katun rivers. These two currents have their origin in the Altai Mountains, the Biya issuing from Lake Teletskoye that Katun, 700 km (430 miles) long, out of a glacier on Mount Byelukha. The river splits into several branches, especially after joining the large Irtysh tributary at about 69 ° E. (From China, the Irtysh is longer than the Ob from the source to their confluence.) The source of the Irtysh to the mouth of the Ob, the river flow is the longest in Russia 5410 km (3360 km). Other noteworthy tributaries are: Eastern, Tom, Chulym, Ket, Tym...

Ob River

Ob River (Russian: Обь), also Obi, is a major river in western Siberia, Russia, and is the fourth longest river in the world. And 'the westernmost of three large Siberian rivers flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two are in the Lena and the Yenisei River). Ob Gulf of Finland is the longest estuary in the world. Ob is known as the Khanty people as Yag, Kolta and Yema, the Nenets people as the Kolta or Kuay as Siberian Tatars and Umar or Oma...

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Geography Of The Yellow River

According to China Research and Exploration Society, the source of the Yellow River is at 34 29 31.1N, 96 20 24.6E near the eastern edge of the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu. Source to sink tribituaries Gyaring Ngoring Lake and Lake on the western edge of Golog Prefecture high in the mountains in a Bayan Qinghai Province in the far west of China. In Zoige basin along the border of Gansu Province, the loops of the Yellow River to the northwest then northeast before turning south, creating "Ordos Loop", and then flows generally eastward into the northern China to the Bohai Bay, draining a basin of 752443 km sq (290,520 sq miles), which...

Pollution In The Yellow River

On 25 November 2008 Tania Branigan of the guardian.co.uk, presented a report on China's mother river, the Yellow River, claiming that a serious contamination was a third of China Yellow River unusable even for agricultural use or industrial use, because the emissions factory and wastewater in rapidly growing cities. The study, based on data taken last year, included more than 8384 miles (13,493 kilometers) of the river, one of the longest waterway in the world and its tributaries. Yellow River Conservancy Commission in 2007, involved more than 8384 miles (13493 km) of the river, said the 33.8% recorded in the water level of less than five. According...

Features Of The Yellow River

Its average flow is said to be 2110 meters cubic per second (32,000 by the Yangtze River), with a maximum of 25,000 and a minimum of 245. Yellow River is an important and a large amount of mud has been transported, 1600000000 tonnes per year at the point where it descends to the plateau of loess. If you are running into the sea in sufficient quantity, 1.4 billion tonnes transported to the sea every year. In modern times, at its first dry since 1972, the river dried up in the lower reaches several times, from Jinan to the sea in most years in 1997 for 226 days. The low volume due to increased irrigation in agriculture, with a factor of five since...

The History Of The Yellow River Changed

The river is prone to flooding. Were flooded in 1593 after years 3000-4000, while the main course has changed 12 times, with at least five large-scale changes from 602 BC to the present. Another source says that more than 1500 floods and course changes 26 (9 large) in 3000 years. These changes, of course, are due to the large amount of loess carried by the river and deposited continuously along the bottom of the river channel. This sedimentation causes a natural dam that accumulate slowly. Finally, the enormous amount of water must find a new way of the sea, causing a flood in a new valley. Flooding was unpredictable, making it difficult for...

Yellow River In Culture

Mother River, the pain of China. Traditionally, it is believed that the origin of Chinese civilization in the Yellow River Basin. The Chinese refer to the river as the "mother river" and the "cradle of Chinese civilization." During the long history of China, the Yellow River is considered a blessing and a curse, and has been dubbed as "The Pride of China" (simplified Chinese: 中国 的 骄傲, Traditional Chinese: 中国 的 骄傲, pinyin: Zhōngguóde Jiāo'ào ) and "China Sorrow" (simplified Chinese: 中国 的 痛, Traditional Chinese: 中国 的 痛, pinyin: Zhōngguóde Tong...

Yellow River

The Yellow River or Huang He / Hwang Ho (simplified Chinese: 黄河, Traditional Chinese: 黄河; pinyin: Huang Han, Mongolian: Hatan Gol, the queen of the river) is the second longest river in China (after Yangtze River) and sixth longest in the world the estimated duration of 5464 km (3395 miles). Bayan was originally from the mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, it passes through nine provinces in China, and empties into the Bohai Sea. The Yellow River basin has an east-west extent of 1900 km (1180 miles) and a north-south extension of 1100 km (684 mi). The total area of ​​the basin is 742,443 km² (290,520 km ²). The Yellow River is called...

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