 First cataract of the Nile Aswan | |
| Nile · نهر النيل | |
| length | 6852 km |
|---|---|
| Height difference | about 2,700 m |
| Catchment area | 3,255,000 km² |
The Nile is the most important of the african Rivers, not only because it is the longest of them all, but also because it is historically the most important. It rises on the one hand in the mountains of Rwanda and Burundi, on the other hand in Ethiopia and flows into Mediterranean Sea.
Regions
Upstream:
places
Upstream:
- 4 Sōhāg
- 5 Qinā
- 6 Luxor - the most important travel destination in Upper Egypt.
- 7 Aswan
Other goals
background
About the Headwaters of the Blue Nile one was already instructed by Kosmas Indicopleustes in the first centuries of our era. The old story of the origin of this Bahr el Azrak im 1 Lake Tana was refreshed by the Portuguese missionaries who stayed in Abyssinia in the 17th century, but was so forgotten that the Scot Bruce was celebrated as the discoverer of the source of the Blue Nile towards the end of the 18th century.
It was not until 1839 that the discovery of the Sources of the White Nile to think; Mehemed Ali equipped an expedition that reached 6 ° 33 'north Br., While a second, in which the French Arnaud, Sabatier and Thibaut and the German Ferdinand Werne were, advanced to 5 ° north Br. In 1841. Since then, numerous travelers have tried in vain to solve the old riddle, until in 1863 the Englishmen Speke and Grant succeeded in solving the 2 Lake Victoria to discover what was considered to be the source of the stream. Only later were the headwaters of the Akagera-Nile feeding Lake Victoria, which in Rwanda and Burundi arise from.
getting there
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Tourist Attractions
activities
security
climate
literature
- : Nile fever: the race to the sources. Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn, 1993, The Other Library; 107, ISBN 978-3-8218-4107-6 .
