Rivers of afghanistan
The rivers of Afghanistan for the most part flow into closed lakes or simply dissolve in the sands of the desert.
Argandab river
Arghandab is one of the rivers in the central part of Afghanistan. The source of the river is the hills located near the town of Ghazni. The confluence is the Helmand river bed. The total length of the current is 400 kilometers. The river water in the lower reaches is used for irrigation, but the inhabited territory of the river valley cannot be called. There are not too many villages here.
Helmand River
Helmand is a river whose bed passes through the lands of two states: Afghanistan and Iran. The total length of the current is 1150 kilometers. The source of the river is on the Baba ridge. The place of confluence is the waters of Lake Hamun (Iran). When confluent, it forms a swampy delta. In addition, the river bed is divided into branches, the channel of which changes quite often..
Kabul river
Kabul is one of the main rivers in the eastern part of Afghanistan, which is the right tributary of the Indus. The total length of the channel is 460 kilometers. The source of the river is located on the slopes of the Hinduksha (southern slopes) at the confluence of the two rivers Unai and Hirsan. The main tributary of the river - Panjer.
The river bed passes through several cities: Kabul; Jalalabad; Peshwar. Almost throughout the year, the river has a low water level and only in summer it overflows as a result of the melting of glaciers. The waters of the river are used exclusively for irrigation.
Panjer River
The beautiful name of the Panjer River literally translates as «Five lions». Panjer is one of the main tributaries of the Kabul River. The river bed runs along the bottom of the Panjeri Gorge (north-east of Afghanistan). The river does not differ in special depths and is shallow almost throughout the year, and only in summer, when the glaciers begin to melt, the river overflows. The waters of the river are used for irrigation.
Tejen River (Gerirud)
Tejen passes through the lands of three states - Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan. The total length of the river channel is 1150 kilometers. In Afghanistan, the river is called Gerirud. The source of the river is the Hisar ridge (southern spurs, central Afghanistan) - the confluence of two rivers: Shorkul and Siahnashma.
In its upper course, the Gerirud is a turbulent mountain river passing through a narrow valley, but bypassing the city of Herat, it calms down, becoming an ordinary plain river. After the Herat oasis, the river becomes mountainous again. And such a transformation of the flow is observed several more times..
Gerirud's water is almost completely disassembled and forms the so-called blind delta - the rest of the water simply dissolves in the Karakum sands.
