Zayandeh River
300px|thumb|Map of the Zayandeh river and the Zayandeh/Gavkhouni drainage basin thumb|right|The Origin of Zayanderud, Koohrang tunnel extracts water from inside the Zagros Mountains. 300px|thumb|Zayanderud, summer 2015 thumb|Zayanderuz, summer 2018 thumb|Zayanderud, 2018 The Zayanderud or Zayandehrud (; from "fertile" or "life-giver", and "river"), also spelled as Zayanderud or Zayanderood, ..., is the largest river of the Iranian Plateau in central Iran.
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- Zayandeh River
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- Zayandeh Rud
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- Zagros Mountains
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Water use and division
- Drying up of Zayandehroud river
- Closing the river and rerouting
- Projects
- Bridges
- Recreation
- References
- Further reading
- External links
300px|thumb|Map of the Zayandeh river and the Zayandeh/Gavkhouni drainage basin thumb|right|The Origin of Zayanderud, Koohrang tunnel extracts water from inside the Zagros Mountains. 300px|thumb|Zayanderud, summer 2015 thumb|Zayanderuz, summer 2018 thumb|Zayanderud, 2018 The Zayanderud or Zayandehrud (; from "fertile" or "life-giver", and "river"), also spelled as Zayanderud or Zayanderood, ..., is the largest river of the Iranian Plateau in central Iran.
==Geography== The Zayandeh starts in the Zard-Kuh subrange of the Zagros Mountains in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province. It flows eastward before ending in the Gavkhouni swamp, a seasonal salt lake, southeast of Isfahan (Esfahan) city.