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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Lena River

The Lena (Russian: Лена, IPA: [l ʲ enə]; Sakha: Өлүөнэ, Ölüöne) is east of three large Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two is the River Ob and Yenisei River). This is the 11th longest river in the world and has the 9th largest watershed. It is Russia's largest river with a watershed entirely within the national range. 
 On the upper west and northwest of Lake Baikal rivers flowing mostly north. 4400:. A small lake in the Baikal Range, in the Baikal-Lena Reserve, 10 km west of Lake Baikal, at an altitude of 1800m. The Lena flows north 19 km, loss of height of 600 meters and be passed by raft. Apparently then west and south of losing another 600 meters at 128 km, to Chanchur, where there are ranger station. 4222: Kachug: initial navigation, the road to Irkutsk. 4197: Verkholensk: Kulenga River estuary, northwest through the mountains, Tutura River. 4108: Zhigalovo: initial passenger service, including the Hydrofoil to Ust-Kut. Canyon downstream.

In the middle of the river flows mostly north-east. 3705: Ust-Kut: northwest of the northern tip of Lake Baikal. In the Cossack era, this is the site of the portage between Yenesei and Lena. Today is the point at which the Baikal-Amur Railway Mainline meet Lena and handles 80% of the cargo in the territory of the Republic of Sakha. 3698: Lena: It really is part of the Ust-Kut, which is very spread out. Lena is a river port. 3397: Portage Cossack and former port: Kirensk. 3101: 'The devil's road', the dangerous in flood. 3096: Shcheki ('cheek'), a narrow section with cliffs and corners. Sakha Republic border. 2955: Vitim: and now selatan.Kita Vitim River from northeast of Lake Baikal. The river widens. Many dead trees in the water. 2931: Peledui: Peledui River, ship repair company and the salt mines. 2744: Lensk: The most important port between Kirensk and Yakutsk. Road 230 km from north to Mir Mine.Here is the stopping point of the 'Perlinsky Trakht', a former courier routes. Lena turns southeast and then northeast. 2587: Chepaevo: 2547: Macha, 2337: Olyokminsk:, Olyokma River from the south. The river widens to 2 km and has a broad flood plain. 2213: Uritskoe, 2030-1850: Lena Pillars: cliffs along the right edge. 1937: Sinsk, Sinsk River and petroglyphs. 1820: Mokhsogollokh: ferries and paved roads to Yakutsk on the edge of the opposite (west). The river turns north. 1805: Pokrovsk: downstream: Tabaga Cliffs, narrowed, power lines and site is planned for the railway bridge Amur Yakutsk Mainline. Nizhny Bestyakh: 13 km south-east of Yakutsk on the left edge, Lena Highway coming from south. Kolyma Road to the Pacific began in the nearby.

At the bottom of the river flows mostly north. 1710: Yakutsk:. 1560 Aldan River from the east. Rivers tend to northwest. 1373: Sangar: coal mining. 1560: Vilyuy River from the west. Rivers tend to north. 959: Arctic Circle. 939: Zhigansk, founded in 1632, 865: Agraphena Island. 545: Sikhtyakh. 385: regional centers: Kyushur. 222: Lena Delta. 0: Tiksi: to the east of the mainland to the delta. Ports, airports, two and a half months of the navigation season. Five degrees north of the Arctic circle.

Amur River

Amur River (Russian: Амур река, IPA: [ɐmur]; Chinese simplified: 黑龙江; Pinyin: Jiang Hēilóng; Manchu: Sahaliyan1.png, Sahaliyan Ula) is the world's ninth longest river, forms the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China. 
It flows northeast Asia for more than 4444 km (2761 mi), from the mountains of northeast China to the Sea of Okhotsk (near Nikolayevsk-na-Amure), it flows a great river that includes diverse landscape of deserts, grasslands, tundra , and taiga, eventually empties into the Pacific Ocean via the Strait of Tartary, where the mouth of the river faces the northern tip of Sakhalin island.

The Amur is alwaysclosely connected the island of Sakhalin in the mouth , and namethe most to the island , even inindigenous languages of the region , derived from the name of the river : " Sakhalin"is derivedfrom the Tungus dialect form cognate with Manchu sahaliyan ( " black ,"asin Ula sahaliyan, "Black River"), while Ainu and Japanese "Karaputo" or "Karafuto"comes from the Ainu name of the Amur or mouth. Anton Chekhov clearly illustrates the Amur River in the writings about the trip to Sakhalin Island in 1890.

Average annual discharge varies from 6000 s m³ / (1980) - 12 000 m³ / s (1957), which causes an average of 9819 m³ / s or 310 km ³ per year. The maximum runoff measured occurred in October 1951 with 30 700 s m³ / while the minimum discharge recorded in March 1946 with only 514 m³ / s.

Congo River

Congo River (also known as Zaire River) is the deepest river in the world, measured by the depth of more than 230 m (750 ft). [2] [3] This isis the second largest river in the world with the volume of waste water ,although only one-fifthvolume of the world'slargest river ,the Amazon . In addition, the overall length of 4700 km (2920 mi), making the tenth longest river.

Its drainage basin covers 4,014,500 square kilometers (1.55 million sq mi) discharge mouth of the Congo in the range from 23,000 cubic meters per second (810,000 cu ft / s). for 75,000 cubic meters per second (2.6 million cu ft / s), with an average of 41,000 cubic meters per second (1.4 million cu ft / s).


Rivers and streams flow through the tropical forests of the Congo, the second largest rain forest in the world, second only to the Amazon Rainforest in South America. River flow also has the second largest in the world, behind Amazon, the third largest drainage basin of any river, behind the Amazon and Rio de la Plata river, and is one of the deepest river in the world, at depths greater than 230 m (750 ft). river flow is slightly larger than the Mississippi. Because large parts of the watershed is located above and below the equator, the flow is stable, because there is always at least one section of the river experiencing the rainy season.


Congo gets its name from the ancient Kingdom of Kongo which inhabited the land at the mouth of a river. Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo, both countries lying along the banks of the river, is named after it. Between 1971 and 1997, the government calls it-Zaire River Zaire.


Source of Congo are in the highlands and mountains of East Africa Rift, as well as Lake Tanganyika and Lake Mweru, which takes Lualaba River, which then becomes the Congo below Boyoma Falls. Chambeshi River in Zambia is generally taken as the source of the Congo in line with accepted practice around the world using the longest tributary, like the River Nile.

Congo generally flows to the north of Kisangani just below Boyoma falls, then gradually bending to the southwest, past the Mbandaka, joining with the Ubangi River, and walked into the Pool Malebo (Stanley Pool). Kinshasa (formerly Leopoldville) and Brazzaville are on opposite sides of the river at the Pool, where the river narrows and falls through a number of cataracts in the canyons (collectively known as the Livingstone Falls), running with Matadi and Boma, and into the sea in the small town of Muanda.

Congo River Basin is one of the distinct physiographic sections of the Mid-African province of the larger, which in turn is part of a larger physiographic division of Africa.
 

Ob River

Ob River (Russian: Обь), also Obi, is a major river in western Siberia, Russia and is the fourth longest river country. Ob River estuary also has the longest in the world.The Ob known to the Khanty people as the As, Yag, Kolta and YEMA, for the Nenets people as the Kolta or kuay, and the Siberian Tatars as the Umar or Omass.


The Ob is formed 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Biysk in Altai Krai by meeting Biya and Katun River. Both these rivers have their origin in the Altay Mountains, the Biya out of Lake Teletskoye, the Cotton, 700 kilometers (430 miles) long, blown out of the glacier on Mount Byelukha. The Ob zigzags west and north to reach the bay of 55 ° N, in which curves round to the northwest, and again north, eventually turning eastwards into the Gulf of Ob, 600 miles (970 km)-long Kara Sea, Arctic Ocean adjacent .

The river is divided into more than one hand, especially after joining the large Irtysh tributary at about 69 ° E. Originating in China, the Irtysh is actually longer than the Ob from their sources to their meeting point. From source to mouth Ob Irtysh, the longest river in Russia in 5410 kilometers (3360 miles). Other important tributaries are: from the east, Tom, Chulym, Ket, Tym and Vakh river, and, from the west and south, Vasyugan, Irtysh (with Ishim and river Tobol), and river Sosva.


Ob-Irtysh system combination, the third longest river system in Asia (after China Yangtze and Yellow rivers), is 5410 kilometers (3360 mi) long, and 2.99 million square kilometer basin area was (1.15 million sq mi).

The flow of the Ob river consists mainly of grasslands, taiga, swamps, tundra, and semi-desert topography. Plain of Ob characterized by many tributaries and lakes.

The Ob ice-bound at southern Barnaul from scratch in November near the end of April, and in Salekhard north, 100 miles (160 km) above its mouth, from late October to early June.

Ob River across several climate zones. The upper Ob River, in the south, grow grapes, melons and watermelons, while achieving lower Ob was the Arctic tundra. The climate is most comfortable to rest on the Ob - is Biisk, Barnaul and Novosibirsk. Here, summer, beautiful spring and autumn, snowy winter.