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The White Nile (Arabic: النيل الأبيض an-nīl al-'abyaḍ) is a river in Africa, the minor of the two main tributaries of the Nile, the larger being the Blue Nile. [4] The name "White" comes from the clay sediment carried in the water that changes the water to a pale color.
The Blue Nile [note 1] is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia.It travels for approximately 1,450 km (900 mi) through Ethiopia and Sudan.Along with the White Nile, it is one of the two major tributaries of the Nile and supplies about 85.6% of the water to the Nile during the rainy season.
The Blue Nile connected to the main Nile during the 70,000–80,000 years B.P. wet period. The White Nile system in Bahr El Arab and White Nile Rifts remained a closed lake until the connection of the Victoria Nile to the main system some 12,500 years ago during the African humid period.
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Tuti Island (also spelled Tutti Island; Arabic: توتي, romanized: Tutiy) is an island in Sudan where the White Nile and Blue Nile merge to form the main Nile.It is surrounded by the "Three Towns": Khartoum (the capital of Sudan), Omdurman (the largest city in Sudan), and Khartoum North (also known as Bahri, a large industrial center).
Khartoum is located at the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile. [ 42 ] Khartoum is relatively flat, at elevation 385 m (1,263 ft), [ 43 ] as the Nile flows northeast past Omdurman to Shendi , at elevation 364 m (1,194 ft) [ 44 ] about 163 km (101 mi) away.
A map of Africa, published by John Cary in 1805, showing the Mountains of the Moon Anthony Finley's map of 1827 owes much to that of Cary, once again depicting the Mountains of the Moon as the source of the White Nile. Rwenzori Mountains. It was not until modern times that Europeans resumed their search for the source of the Nile.
The festival of the Nile as depicted in Norden's Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie Map of the Nile river. The flooding of the Nile (commonly referred to as the inundation) has been an important natural cycle in Nubia and Egypt since ancient times. It is celebrated by Egyptians as an annual holiday for two weeks starting August 15, known as Wafaa El-Nil.