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The Bahr el Zeraf (Vorlage:Lang-ar, also spelt Bahr az-Zaraf, Bahr ez Zeraf, and Baḩr az Zarāf), or Zeraf River in the English language,[1] is an arm of the White Nile in the Sudd region of South Sudan. It is completely contained within the South Sudanese state of Jonglei. Its name is Arabic for "Giraffe River".[2]
Course
The Bahr el Zeraf forms in the southern Sudd wetlands as an arm of the Bahr al Jabal ("Mountain Nile") section of the White Nile. A pair of man-made canals known as the Zeraf Cuts were dug in 1910 and 1913[3] to connect the two rivers at Koordinaten fehlen! Hilf mit..[4] These canals divert some of the Jabal's flow, more than doubling the Zeraf's volume, with the intention of accelerating the flow to Egypt and thereby reducing the water "lost" to evaporation and transpiration in the swamps.[3]
From the Cuts the Zeraf flows north through the Ez Zeraf Game Reserve for Vorlage:Convert. About Vorlage:Convert of this distance is through continuous swamp with islands, transitioning further downstream to a well-defined channel with raised banks.[3] The Zeraf rejoins the White Nile near New Fangak,[5] Vorlage:Convert downriver from Lake No and Vorlage:Convert upriver from Malakal.[6]
See also
References
External links
- Bahr el Zeraf (river), Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Baḩr az Zarāf, GEOnet Names Server
[[Category:Rivers of South Sudan]] [[Category:Nile basin]] [[Category:Jonglei State]] [[Category:Greater Upper Nile]]
- ↑ A. E. Pease: The Book of the Lion. Ravenio Books, 16. Oktober 1909.
- ↑ Karl Baedeker: Egypt and the Sûdân 1914, S. 435.
- ↑ a b c Frederic Newhouse: The training of the upper Nile. Sir I. Pitnam & sons, ltd, .
- ↑ R. H. Hughes: A directory of African wetlands, [Pbk. ed.].. Auflage, IUCN [u.a.], Glan [u.a.] 1992, ISBN 2880329493.
- ↑ Openstreetmap contributors (2013). Openstreetmap [Karte].
- ↑ Vorlage:Cite encyclopedia