الاثنين، 19 مارس 2012

Nile River / Egypt

Is the second longest river in the world and pave the land of Egypt from south to north is divided into two branches, pour in the Mediterranean are the Rosetta branch and the Damietta branch

A length of from its sources in the Lake Tanganyika up to its mouth in the Mediterranean Sea 6690 km and covers an area of ​​1.9 million square kilometers and extends in ten countries, namely Tanzania - Kenya - Zaire - Burundi - Rwanda - Ethiopia - Eritrea - Uganda - Sudan - Egypt.
Stems from the River Nile and Lake Victoria waterfalls and rapids encountered bettered rushes to strongly up or down until it reaches its normal course

The most important projects of the organization of the Nile water at all is a project of the High Dam has protected Egypt from devastating floods and drought, where water storage is in front of him in the years of high floods, as well as effects on the broad fields of irrigation, agriculture and power generation

 River Nile carries life and fertility and growth to the land of Egypt, and also wrote the Greek historian Herodotus, "Egypt is the gift of the Nile" and so out of touch of what importance in the life of the Egyptian Nile.

   Began to measure the water level in the River Nile from the era of the ancient Egyptians, when they tried to use what is known as scale Nile Nilometre, was the measure of one form of three: slab, column, or peace, each of which carries gradually, and the unit of measurement fixed forms of the three, known Balciobt cubit, and became standards Nile tourist site.

    Is calculated quantities of rainfall over the region of the Nile River by addressing the imagery satellites to the regions of the Blue Nile basin and the basin of the White Nile and quality control, and then transferred automatically to a prediction to analyze weather patterns of the seasonal variations of rainfall over the Nile River Basin in order to predict the seasonal long-term of the actions of the River Nile

The River Nile is a great influence on life in Egypt, since the time of the ancient Egyptians to the Islamic era, particularly with respect to agriculture and religious beliefs. And adopted Egyptian civilization on the Nile River in the food and transportation, and the religious practices they reflect its importance.

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