Travel the world: River Nile from beginning to end

River Nile from beginning to end

River Nile in Uganda

Beginning:
Nile longest river in the hemisphere and its characteristics it is Nehrlafrat considered "the most prolific rivers in the Arab World", is located in the continent of Africa and flows to the north, his tributaries presidents White Nile and the Blue Nile originates White Nile in the Great Lakes region in Central Africa, beyond the source is available in the southern Rwanda at the coordinates, being from northern Tanzania to Lake Victoria, Uganda and southern Sudan, while the blue Nile starts at Lake Tana in Ethiopia at * coordinates are then to Sudan from the south-east and then two rivers meet near the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
The total length of the river 6650 km (4132 miles). The Nile Basin covers an area of 3.4 million km ², and passes on track ten African countries dubbed the Nile Basin countries.

List of the Nile Basin countries:
Uganda - Ethiopia - Sudan - DRC - Burundi - Tanzania - South Sudan - Rwanda - Kenya - Egypt -

The path of the Nile River:
Meets the Nile River in capital Alsudankherthom and consists of two major Icoma replenishment, namely: a branch of the White Nile in the east of the continent, and "Blue Nile branch" in Ethiopia. Constitute these two branches west wing of the East African rift, which is, in turn, the southern part of the African Great Rift Valley

White Nile branch:
Lake Victoria is the main source of the Nile water. This lake is located on the borders of each of Uganda, Tensanyaokenia, this lake, in turn, is the third Great Lakes. In parallel, the River Rovirunza in Burundi is the maximum of the Nile River, which forms the upper branch of the Kagera River Kagera River cuts a path length of 690 km (429 miles) before entering into Lake Victoria.

Blue Nile branch:
Blue Nile comes by (80-85%) of water feeding the Nile River, but these waters up to him in the summer only during Sfot of monsoon rains on the Ethiopian plateau, while not in the rest of the days of the year a large proportion where little water in it.

Confluence of branches of the Nile:After the Union of the White and Blue Niles in Mqrnakherthom together to form the Nile, is left to the Nile River is only one tributary to feed water before entering Egypt, namely the Atbara River, which has a track length of 800 km (500 miles) approx. This river stems also from the Ethiopian highlands, north of Lake Tana, and connects to the Nile River at a distance of 300 km (200 miles) after the city of Khartoum.

Flooding of the Nile:Since the dawn of history, adopted the civilizations that built on the banks of the Nile on agriculture, as a core activity Join her, especially in Alsudanomusr of due to it being one of the first countries which have in the territory of civilizations, this was the form of the Nile flood great importance in the life of ancient Egyptian and Nubian as well. This was a flood occurs regularly in the summer, and water-based enrichment of land necessary for his peasants began growing throughout the year waiting for this water.In ancient Egypt, the flood associated with this quasi-sacred ritual, where we were staying and fulfillment celebrations the Nile flood joy. They also record these celebrations in the form of carving on the walls of temples, tombs and pyramids to indicate the extent sanctify this flood.The scriptures reported holy (Alangeloalqran) story of Prophet Yusuf with a pharaoh of Egypt when he interpret his dream about seven and ears to the seven cows, which contributed to protect Egypt from the risk of flooding in this period, for seven years of prosperity and seven lean years.In Egypt, the Islamic cared but flood Adtha also, and they have designed a "measure of the Nile" in the capital Cairo to do a precise measurement of the flood. This measure is still valid for the day in the "kindergarten Island" in Cairo.