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The Amu Darya (/ ˌ ɑː m uː ˈ d ɑːr j ə / AH-moo DAR-yə), [a] (Persian: آمو دریا) also shortened to Amu and historically known as the Oxus (/ ˈ ɒ k s ə s / OK-səss), [2] [b] is a major river in Central Asia, which flows through Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan.
The Panj (UK: / ˈ p æ n dʒ / PANJ, US: / ˈ p ɑː n dʒ / PAHNJ), [a] traditionally known as the Ochus River, is a river in Afghanistan and Tajikistan and a tributary of the Amu Darya. The river is 921 kilometres (572 mi) long and has a basin area of 114,000 square kilometres (44,000 sq mi). [2] It forms a considerable part of the ...
Amu Darya→ Aral Sea The Kofarnihon ( Tajik : Кофарниҳон , Uzbek : Kofarnihon ) is one of the major tributaries of the Amu Darya (together with Vakhsh and Panj ) in Tajikistan . The river is 387 kilometres (240 mi) long and has a basin area of 11,600 square kilometres (4,500 sq mi). [ 1 ]
Before the project, the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya rivers flowed down from the mountains...and finally pooled together in the lowest part of the basin. The lake they made, the Aral Sea, was once ...
The last time the waters of the Amu Darya directly entered the basin was during the flood of 1878. [6] [9] Since the beginning of the 1960s, the Sarykamysh lake has been filled with collector-drainage waters, [10] feeding was carried out through the Daryalyk collector, while water from the farmland of the left bank of the Amu Darya was used ...
The Amu Darya is Turkmenistan's largest and heaviest flowing river. One-thousand kilometers of its 1,415-kilometer length flows through Turkmenistan. It is the primary water source for the Karakum Canal. The Murghab River, Turkmenistan's second-largest, is 978 kilometers in length, with 530 kilometers of that in Turkmenistan.
As the Amu Darya shifted eastward in recent times, it could no longer reach the Sarykamysh Depression and flowed into the Aral Basin. The Uzboy dried up and the tribes along the river abandoned their settlements. The survivors led a nomadic lifestyle. Since 1575, it is said, the Amu Darya has flowed back into the Aral Sea.
Afghanistan-Tajikistan bridge over the Amu Darya river in 2007. Amu Darya. Sari Pul River, no longer reaches the Amu Darya; Balkh River, no longer reaches the Amu Darya; Khulm River (formerly Tashkurgan River), no longer reaches the Amu Darya; Kunduz River (or Surkhab River) Khanabad River; Andarab; Bamiyan River; Kokcha River. Anjuman; Panj ...