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Video: Emba is a river in Kazakhstan. Description, features, photo
2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:47
Emba is a river in Kazakhstan. It is one of the largest, along with such water streams as the Ural, Syr Darya, Ishim, Ili, Irtysh and Tobol. Emba captures two Kazakhstani regions at once: Aktobe and Atyrau, and it is its channel that divides the country into Asian and European parts.
Short description
Regarding the average length of the planet's rivers, the length of the Emba is small: only 712 km. It begins in the western part of the southern spur of the Ural Mountains, then flows along the Sub-Ural plateau and the Caspian lowland, capturing areas with a s alt maritime marsh. Emba - the river (see photo in the article) belongs to the Caspian Sea basin. It is into this water area that it flows.
It tends to dry up during the summer season and split into separated deep areas, which are predominantly fish in small quantities. The main runoff of the Emba is observed in spring. It is in this season that it is full of water. The river is fed by snow. The water contains a significant concentration of sodium chloride and therefore is highly mineralized. Emba is a river that has tributaries. The main ones are Atsaksy and Temir, which also often dry up.
Resources
In different places of Emba there is extraction of such important natural resources as gas and oil. There are three separate areas: in the north, south and east. Initially, the North Emba and South Emba oil and gas parts were part of one, but already in the 1980s the latter was divided into two regions, which remain unchanged to this day.
Territorial features
According to one of the versions, the Emba is a river along which you can draw an invisible border separating Asia and Europe. However, according to the preliminary results of the campaign of the geographical community of Russia, it became clear that there were not enough grounds for drawing the border between the two parts of the mainland along its channel. The reason for this is the fact that to the south of the city of Zlatoust, the Ural Mountains break up into several components. Further, the ridge slowly develops into plains, namely, the landmark for marking the border disappears. The Emba River does not separate Europe and Asia because the area it crosses is similar.
As a result, the expedition from Russia came to the following conclusion: the Caspian plain appeared when the Caspian Sea washed the desert and the Ustyurt plateau of the same name from the west. Therefore, most likely, this region should be considered the border of the European and Asian parts. As for natural areas, Emba is located on the territory of the steppe and semi-desert.
Features of the river
The upper part of the Emba is a chalk plateau that has been badly damaged by erosion. Loweris located in the Caspian lowland and has a barely perceptible slope to the sea area. Approximately 20 km from the mouth of the Emba, it forms a delta with three main branches called Kara-Uzyak, Kiyan and Kulok.
Due to frequent drying up and a very unstable source of replenishment, the river is sorely lacking in water resources. It is full-flowing mainly in spring, but in summer it turns into many areas with immovable water. Emba is a river that acquires a special color after rains. Its waters become cloudy with a dirty milky tinge.
Hydronym
In the Kazakh language, Emba has two variants of the name: Embi and Zhem. The first is officially accepted. It comes from the Turkmen language. Zhem is used mainly locally and is translated as "recharge". From the name of the river comes the name of the Nogai tribe, who used to live on the Emba. However, they had to relocate due to pressure from the Kalmyks.
Animal world
Emba is a river, the animal life of which is rather poor. It is easy to guess that such poverty is due to the fact that the water flow for almost the entire year represents separate lakes with stagnant water. However, fishing on this river is possible during the spring season. You can catch pike, asp, chub, podust, carp, tench and some other fish in it.
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