Nile the longest river in the globe and its characteristics it is Nehrlafrat considered "the most prolific of two rivers in the Arab World", is located in the continent of Africa and flows to the north, his tributaries presidents of the White Nile and the Blue Nile originates White Nile in the Great Lakes region in Central Africa, farther source found in coordinates southern Rwanda at 2 ° 16'55.92 "S 29 ° 19'52.32" E being from north to Lake Victoria, Tanzania, Uganda and southern Sudan, while the blue Nile starts at Lake Tana in Ethiopia at coordinates 12 ° 2'8.8 "N 37 ° 15'53.11" E and then going to the Sudan from the south-east and then the two rivers meet near the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
The total length of the river 6650 km (4132 mi). Nile Basin covers an area of 3.4 million km ², and its trajectory passes ten African countries dubbed the Nile Basin countries.
The economic importance
Nile Basin is a diversified geographically unique, starting from the highlands in the south and at least rise until it reaches the spacious plains in the far north. Therefore, the Nile River is the only river which runs from south to north depending on the ground a mile.
Nile is a great importance in the economies of the Nile Basin countries, in the field of agriculture depends farmers in all countries of the Nile Basin waters to irrigate their crops. Among the most famous of these crops: cotton, wheat, sugarcane, dates, beans, and citrus fruits.
In the field of anglers fishing depends on the fish Nile where available, and is a favorite fish dishes from many of the peoples of these countries. The Nile River is famous for the presence of many of the most important aquaculture Nile crocodile, which in the presence of most of the path of the Nile. In the area of tourism, in the Sudan, Egypt and underpinning a types of tourism, a "tourism Nile", where sailing felucca carrier of tourists and visitors to the country in each of the two dams third and fourth in the north of Sudan and, between Juba and Kosti in southern Sudan and Giza, Minya, Sohag, Qena and Luxor and Aswan in Egypt.
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