Egypt Tours - River Nile in Egypt
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River Nile in Egypt
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Is the second longest in the world and pave the land of Egypt from the south to the north is divided into two sections to pour into the Mediterranean Sea are the Rosetta and the Damietta branch.
Length of its sources in 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.
The River Nile springs from Lake Victoria and it is rife waterfalls and rapids to overcome this obstacle rushes strongly up or down until it reaches its natural course.
Of the most important projects in 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 is stored in front of him in the years of high floods, as well as his broad implications for the fields of irrigation, agriculture and power generation.
River Nile carries life, fertility and growth of 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 Nehralnil importance in the lives of the Egyptians.
Began to measure water levels 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 a form of three categories: slab, column, or peace, each of which carries gradually, and the unit of measurement fixed forms of the three, and you know Balciobt cubit became standards Nile tourist site.
Is calculated quantities of rainfall over the area of the River Nile by processing images captured by satellite to the regions of the Blue Nile basin and the basin of the White Nile, quality control, and then transferred automatically to a prediction to analyze weather patterns for 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.
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