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A road going through the flooded savannah The Nile Delta upstream of Cairo in 1961. At the northern end is the Nile Delta, 175 km long by 260 km wide. There are some lakes and lagoons with marshes near the seacoast; some of the larger are Lake Burullus and Lake Manzala. The topsoil in the delta is up to 21 meters in depth and intensely used for ...
Nile River and Delta. The Suez Canal is east of the delta and enters the coastal Lake Manzala in the north-east of the delta. To the north-west are three other coastal lakes or lagoons: Lake Burullus, Lake Idku and Lake Mariout. The Nile is considered to be an "arcuate" delta (arc-shaped), as it resembles a triangle or flower when seen from above.
The Flooded grasslands and savannas Biome, and its terrestrial ecoregions around the world. The main article for this category is Flooded grasslands and savannas . Subcategories
Template: Palearctic flooded grassland and savanna ecoregions. 2 languages. ... Nenjiang River grassland: China: Nile Delta flooded savanna: Egypt: Saharan halophytics:
Also, the annual spread of sediment due to the Nile floods occurred along the banks of the Nile. Areas far from the river which never received the Nile floods before are now being irrigated. [45] A more serious issue of trapping of sediment by the dam is that it has increased coastline erosion surrounding the Nile Delta.
Flooding hit Lacassine, Louisiana, hard after Delta came through the area on Oct. 10. There were still piles of debris leftover from Laura. Roads and yards flooded after Delta [Video]
The festival of the Nile as depicted in Norden's Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie Map of the Nile river. The flooding of the Nile (commonly referred to as the inundation) has been an important natural cycle in Nubia and Egypt since ancient times. It is celebrated by Egyptians as an annual holiday for two weeks starting August 15, known as Wafaa El-Nil.
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