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Map of the Amu Darya watershed. The river's total length is 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) and its drainage basin totals 534,739 square kilometres (206,464 sq mi) in area, providing a mean discharge of around 97.4 cubic kilometres (23.4 cu mi) [1] of water per year. The river is navigable for over 1,450 kilometres (900 mi).
Geographically, it is the region between the rivers Amu Darya to its south and the Syr Darya to its north. [2] The region of Transoxiana was one of the satrapies (provinces) of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia under the name Sogdia.
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.
Its annual flow is a very modest [1] 37 cubic kilometres (30,000,000 acre⋅ft) per year—half that of its sister river, the Amu Darya. Along its course, the Syr Darya irrigates the most productive agricultural regions in all of Central Asia, together with the towns of Kokand, Khujand, Kyzylorda and Turkestan.
Afghanistan-Tajikistan bridge over the Amu Darya river in 2007. Amu Darya. Sari Pul River, ... Map of Principal River Drainage Systems at page 12; Kamal, Gomal (May ...
The Qosh Tepa Canal (Pashto: د قوشتپې کنال; Persian: کانال قوش تپه; Uzbek: Qoʻshtepa kanali) is a canal being built in northern Afghanistan to divert water from the Amu Darya. [1] The main canal is expected to be 285 km long and the overall initiative seeks to convert 550,000 hectares of desert into farmland. [2]
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 ...
Pamir as seen from the map, as well as the Amu Darya river which rises from the Pamir Mountains north of the Hindu Kush and the Helmand River which is the longest river in the entire country of Afghanistan.