Tigris and Euphrates

The length of the Tigris is 1,890 km, and a horse swimming pool - 375 thousand square kilometers. The Euphrates has a much greater length - 2760 km. A catchment area of ??1,060,000 square kilometers. In the lower reaches it is called in Arabic the Shatt al-Arab. Tigris and Euphrates rivers intersect Mesopotamia from the north-west to south-east and merge in 195 kilometers from the mouth of a gully. And they are pouring into the Persian Gulf. Within Mesopotamia existence of the Tigris and Euphrates supported snowmelt in the Armenian highlands. Ibid These rivers and their origin. And now, thousands of years later, these rivers are vital to life in Mesopotamii. After all, people and settled and taken root here only because it engaged in irrigated agriculture. Coming out of the limits of the Armenian highlands, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers form in Upper Mesopotamia, well-developed valley. Deeply incised their channels have significant biases. Each of the river takes affluent tributaries, which also flow down from the mountain tops. When entering the Lower Mesopotamian plain Tigris and Euphrates rivers during the slow and channel them fall into the sleeves. In interfluvial space appear lakes and wetlands. Within the greater part of the Euphrates is no longer gets a constant influx. Gravitate to him only a dry riverbed, which are filled with water only after rains. Tiger also receives several tributaries flowing down from the slopes of the Zagros. After the confluence of two rivers and the formation of a common channel, the Shatt-Ely-Arab takes another big influx - Karun. In the basin of the Shatt al-Arab, there are floods every year. They are connected with spring rains and melting snows. In the lower reaches of the cause of floods and tidal waves are, that raise the water level by several meters. Along the lower reaches of the Euphrates and the upper segment of the Shatt al-Arab is the area Schumer, annually in spring is covered with water, and some of it is occupied by the lake did not dry up throughout the year. These annual floods played a big role in shaping the landscape and affect the lives of the population: the natural vegetation and culture is richer than the uncovered spaces. Population zanimastsya farming and fishing, building houses from reeds.