Zayandeh River
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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.
Key facts
- River.mapframe
- yes
- River.name
- Zayandeh River
- River.image
- Zayandeh Rud River.jpg
- River.image_caption
- Zayandeh Rud
- River.source1_location
- Zagros Mountains
- River.mouth_location
- Gavkhouni (endorheic)
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Iran
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via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Iran
- Located in
- Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province
- Image
- 33pol esfahan.jpg
- Length
- 400
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- Commons category
- Zayandeh River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Gavkhuni Lake
- different from
- Zayandeh Rud
- origin of the watercourse
- Zagros Mountains
- watershed area
- 41500
- discharge
- 38.0
- basin country
- Iran
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zayandeh River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (8)
On the map
2 mapped locations