Kaschaf

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Kaschaf
Kaschaf Rūd
Data
location Razavi-Chorāsān ( Iran )
River system Hari Rud
Drain over Hari Rud  → Karakum Desert
source in the Binālūd Mountains
36 ° 27 ′ 55 ″  N , 58 ° 51 ′ 37 ″  E
muzzle in the Hari Rud coordinates: 35 ° 57 '54 "  N , 61 ° 7' 8"  E 35 ° 57 '54 "  N , 61 ° 7' 8"  E
Mouth height 402  m

length 290 km
Big cities Mashhad
Medium-sized cities Chenaran
The course of the Kaschaf river in northeastern Iran

The course of the Kaschaf river in northeastern Iran

The Kaschaf ( Persian کشف, DMG Kašaf ) or Kaschaf Rūd (also Kashaf Rūd Persian کشفرود‌, 'Turtle River ') is a river in northeastern Iran .

The source of the river is in the Binālūd Mountains region in the Razavi-Chorāsān Province . Its total length is approximately 290 km. The course of the Kaschaf leads past the city of Chenaran and the provincial capital Mashhad further east to the border with Turkmenistan . There it flows below the Doosti Dam into the Tedschen (or Hari Rūd, in Turkmen Tejen ) coming from Afghanistan , which forms the border between Iran and Turkmenistan over a distance of about 100 km and in an oasis in the sandy Desert region of the Kārākum in Turkmenistan ends.

In Iranian mythology , kashaf refers to a river on which a dragon lived.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Ehlers (ed. And trans.): Abū'l-Qāsem Ferdausi: Rostam - The legends from the Šāhnāme . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2002, p. 366 f.