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Description. 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.
- 534,739 km² (206,464 sq mi)
- Aral Sea
- 2,400 km (1,500 mi)
The Amu Darya is 879 miles (1,415 km) long, but its length is 1,578 miles (2,540 km) if measured from the sources of its headstream, the Panj River, in the Pamirs. In the past the Amu Darya discharged into the Aral Sea , but the diversion of river water for agriculture in the 20th and 21st centuries has contributed to the shrinking of the Aral ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 7, 2023 · Learn about the Amu Darya River, one of Central Asia's longest rivers, which originates from the Pamir Mountains and flows into the Aral Sea. Explore its course, climate, history, ecology, and tributaries with maps and images.
- Diptarka Ghosh
Apr 28, 2011 · The Oxus is a river, today called Amu Darya in its western part and Wakhsh in its eastern parts, which flows for a length of 2400 km across modern Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan into Lake Aral. In Ancient times it crossed the regions Fergana, Bactria, Oxeiana, Sogdiana and Khiva.
- Antoine Simonin
The Amu Darya ( Persian: آمودریا, Āmūdaryā; Arabic: جيحون, Jihôn or Jayhoun; Hebrew: גּוֹזָן, Gozan ), also called Oxus and Amu River, is a major river in Central Asia. It is formed by the junction of the Vakhsh and Panj. In ancient times, the river was regarded as the boundary between Iran and Turan.
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Coordinates: 46°09′15″N 60°52′25″E. Syr Darya. Jaxartes. Syr Darya at Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan. Map of area around the Aral Sea. Aral Sea boundaries are c. 2008. The Syr Darya drainage basin is in yellow, and the Amu Darya basin in orange. Etymology.
Rising in the Pamir Mountains, north of the Hindu Kush, the Amu Darya is formed by the confluence of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers, in the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve on the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, and flows from there north-westwards into the southern remnants of the Aral Sea.
