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The Araz River along the Iranian border with Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. Rivers form the principal part of the water systems of Azerbaijan. There are 8,359 rivers of various lengths within Azerbaijan. Of them, 8,188 rivers are less than 25 kilometres (16 mi) long. Only 24 rivers are over 100 kilometres (62 mi) long.
It was built in 1958 to provide drinking water to the growing population of Baku and Sumgayit. The total area is 13.9 km 2, the reservoir volume is 186 million m 3, 150 million m 3 used. The length of the reservoir is 8.74 km, the maximum width is 2.15 km, the length of the coastline is 23.3 km. The maximum depth of water in the tank is 28.5 m. [4]
This Mingachevir water reservoir was created on the Kura river. The construction of the Mingachevir reservoir and the Hydroelectric Power Station was completed in 1953. The total capacity of the reservoir at the normal level (83 m) is 15730 mln m 3, useful volume of it is 8210 mln m3.
The Aras River along the Iranian border with the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. This is a list of rivers of Azerbaijan. The hydrography of Azerbaijan basically belongs to the Caspian Sea drainage basin to which all rivers in Azerbaijan flow to. [1] The Caspian Sea is an endorheic basin, having no outflows to an ocean. [1]
The largest lake of the Republic is Sarısu lake, located in the Kur-Araz lowland (water area 65.7 km 2 l its volume of water is 59.1 million m 3). The highest mountainous lake in the Republic is Tufangöl (area 0.01 km 2 , with a volume of 0.11 million m 3 ) located in the basin of Damiraparanchay and at a height of 3277 m.
Works on investigation of depth of Baku bay began after 1996, and later works on extraction of metallic constructions and sunk vessels from water were begun. In 2007-2009's, large scale works on cleansing of the bay of sunken vessels, metallic constructions and non-exploited hydrotechnical constructions, non-serviceable subsea pipelines began ...
The reservoir's water level is maintained by the dam of the Mingachevir Hydro Power Plant, built near Mount Bozdağ from 1945 to 1953. [8] It is the largest hydroelectric power station of Azerbaijan, with an installed electric capacity of 401.6 megawatts. [9]
This is a list of lakes of Azerbaijan. The list includes only natural lakes. Artificial lakes such as reservoirs are excluded from this list. The Caspian Sea, which is the largest lake on Earth by both area and volume and which borders Azerbaijan on the east, is also excluded from this list. There are around 450 lakes in Azerbaijan.