Karun

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Karun
Map of the Karun

Map of the Karun

Data
location Southwest Iran
River system Karun
Drain over Shatt al-Arab  → Persian Gulf
source Zard cow in the Zagros Mountains
muzzle in Khorramshahr in the Arvand Rud ( Shatt al-Arab ) Coordinates: 30 ° 25 ′ 39 "  N , 48 ° 9 ′ 55"  E 30 ° 25 ′ 39 "  N , 48 ° 9 ′ 55"  E

length 820 km (other springs 850 km)
Catchment area approx. 60,000 km²
Drain MQ
770 m³ / s
Left tributaries Marun
Right tributaries Dec
Big cities Ahvaz , Khorramshahr
Ahwaaaz (1) .JPG
Ahwaaaz (7) .JPG

The Kārun (also Ulai stream ; Persian كارون) is a river in southwest Iran . The Karun flows from Mount Zard Kuh in the Zagros Mountains in Lorestan to Arvand Rud ( Schatt el Arab ) and finally into the Persian Gulf . This 720 km long river is the longest and only navigable river in Iran.

Dams and reservoirs

Looking downstream, the Karun is dammed by the following hydropower plants:

dam operator Max. Power (MW) Reservoir Surface (km²) Volume (million m³)
Karun-4 1,000 Karun-4 29.23 2,190
Karun-3 2,000 Karun-3 2,970
Karun-1 2,000 Karun-1 2,900
Karun-2 2,000 Karun-2 261
Gotvand 2,000 Gotvand 96.5 4,500

history

In the Gilgamesh epic the "Ulai-Strom" is mentioned more often. In the early Sumerian Gilgamesh tradition, this river was probably of great importance as a route for transporting cedar wood to Uruk or to the other Mesopotamian places. At that time the “sacred cedar forest” was not in Lebanon , but in the eastern mountain ranges of Mesopotamia.

The Band-e Kaisar , a combination of arched bridge and weir , built by Roman work groups in the 3rd century AD , is likely to have been the first large bridge over the Karun.

literature

Web links

Commons : Karun  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Article Karun in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D059628~2a%3D~2b%3DKarun