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	Kura River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kura (Georgian მტკვარი - Mtkvari, Azerbaijani Kür) is a river in the Caucasus Mountains.
		The name Kura is taken from the name Kurosh which is the Persian pronunciation of the name of the Persian king Cyrus the Great.
		The name Kura was adopted first by the Russians and later by the European cartographers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kura_River (199 words)

	Araks River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aras was chosen as the border limit between Persia and Russia in the Treaty of Golestan in 1813 by which the whole area north of that river was cut off from Iran and annexed to Russia.
		By some, the river Araks has been associated with the otherwise unidentified Gihon river mentioned in the second chapter of the Bible.
		The river Aras is also referred to in the song "Holy Mountains" on System of a Down's album entitled "Hypnotize".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Araks (273 words)

	Kura - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Kura, river, Turkey, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, the longest river of the Transcaucasia Region.
		Aras, river, southwestern Asia, rising near Erzurum, Turkey, and flowing in a generally eastern direction through Armenia and Azerbaijan, where it...
		The city, situated on the Kura River in a...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Kura.html (115 words)

	GREEN AZERBAIJAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Kura is usually divided by three parts: upper Kura (till the Borjomi ravine), middle Kura (till the Mingechaur dam), and lower Kura (till the Caspian).
		On the territory belonging to Georgia the river was studied in 1964, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1989 in the areas of Varsia, Aspindza, Akhalkalaki, Borjomi, Akhaldaba, Khashiri, Gori, Mitskheti, Tbilisi, Rustavi and Gardabani cities.
		In the Khramchay river which every year brings the sewage from several cities and settlements of two neighboring countries to the Kura river concentration of phenols is 270 times as much as the norm.
	greenaz.aznet.org /GreenAz/issues97/BT0397E.html (4398 words)

	CRTC for Pollution Control: Rivers
		Rivers contribute the greatest proportion of all types of pollution to the Caspian Sea, carrying pollutants that have originated from domestic and industrial outfalls and also direct runoff of agricultural pollutants.
		Although the available data for river pollution concentrations are not considered to be reliable, it is estimated that rivers discharge between 80% and 97% of the total input to the Sea of each important pollutant except oil.
		Rivers clearly have a major impact on overall sea water quality, and the pollutants being carried to the sea mostly originate from areas far more than 100 km from their mouths.
	www.caspianenvironment.org /pollution/rivers.htm (495 words)

	Kura-Araks River Basin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Kura River is the largest hydrological watercourse in the South Caucasus.
		Pollution of trans-boundary Kura-Aras River is one of the most critical issues for the countries of the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), therefore it is reflected in national action plans and forthcoming programmes.
		The river is essential for national and local economies as its waters are used for drinking, hydropower and irrigation.
	www.undp.org.ge /Projects/kura.html (500 words)

	Problem of Kura - Araks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		From the territory of Turkey Kura, across the border of Georgia excessively pollutes in the Georgian territory and flowing to Azerbaijan and then to the Caspian sea.
		In spite of the fact that in Georgia the Kura's water is not used for drinking, 2.500 km2 from 20.000 km2 of the river pool is used with the purposes of irrigation in agricultural prod
		Kura river united with Araks in Sabirabad region of Azerbaijan drags all ecological problems of South Caucasus to Caspian sea, which on power and fishy stocks is unique water basin of the world and determining factor in the establishment of the climate in Caspian region.
	ruzgar.aznet.org /ruzgar/1-7.htm (605 words)

	Ecotoxicology in Azerbaijan, Bickham, Quarterdeck 4.3
		The river is polluted as a result of agricultural practices in Azerbaijan and mining and industrial activities in Georgia and Armenia.
		Three sturgeon hatcheries on the Kura River sit at the mouth of the river, at Neftchala, and at Ali Bayramly.
		Unfortunately, this process is not designed for the conservation of the native Kura River populations of sturgeon because the specimens used for breeding are caught at sea by commercial fishermen.
	www-ocean.tamu.edu /Quarterdeck/QD4.3/bickham-4.3.html (980 words)

	rivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		The Mtkvari River (Kura) is the longest (1 364 km).
		The rivers of Georgia belong to the basins of the Black Sea and Caspian Basin flows the Mtkvari river with its numerous tributaries (left) Didi Liakhvi, Aragvi, Iori, Alazani, (right) the Paravani, the Algeti, and Khrami.
		The rivers are mountainous and are mostly tributaries to the rivers of Kura and Araks.
	www.cenn.org /water/rivers.htm (199 words)

	CEO - Caucasus Environment Outlook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		In Armenia, for example, the Debed River, a tributary of the Kura River was highly polluted with copper and zinc discharged from the Alaverdi mine in Northeast Armenia.
		However, the Kura river, being the major waterway in the South Caucasus region, has a high degree of international importance, in terms of both quantity and quality of water, since its basin covers five countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Iran and the rivers and their tributaries there are abstracted for essential uses.
		The rivers of the Kura basin are used for agriculture, domestic, industrial, and hydropower generation and recreation purposes.
	www.gridtb.org /projects/CEO/ch2_4_3.htm (1323 words)

	CMC Paper: Potential Cooperative Measures for Civilian Nuclear Facilities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		The Kura River and its tributaries are the primary water source for eastern Georgia, southwestern Armenia, and all of Azerbaijan.
		The hydrology module of the decision support model was used to estimate the rate of bacterial transport (i.e., flow velocity of the river) and dilution of the bacteria concentration by inflows to the river (i.e., change in the volumetric discharge with distance downstream from the source).
		Inflows to the Kura were modeled along the reach of the river, including groundwater recharge (0.01 km3/yr /km of river) and discharge from the Chrami (1.8 km3/yr), Agstafachay (0.041 km3/yr), and Achindjanchay (0.16 km3/yr) Rivers.
	www.cmc.sandia.gov /links/cmc-papers/sand-2001-0756/sand01-0756.html (9644 words)

	Hydromet Azerbaijan
		The trans-boundary rivers in Azerbaijan are Kura River and its tributaries the Araz, Ganikh (Alazan) Rivers and other small rivers of the basin that discharge directly into the Caspian Sea.
		The Ganikh (Alazan) River is the third largest river and flows through the territory of Georgia and Azerbaijan before discharging into Mingechevir Reservoir on Kura River and has a total watershed area of 12,080 km2.
		The Samur River watershed area comprises 3,620 km2 and the Astarachay River is 242 km2.
	www.azhydromet.com /aboutus.html (643 words)

	CRTC for ITCAMP: Coastal Profiles. Azerbaijan
		The rivers are corresponded to small ones and don't form large delta except Samur and Kura rivers.
		The upper border of mouth zone of Kura river is 27 km from the mouth (Garavelli point).
		Cultural activity of human (such as regulation of river flow, water volume reduce due to water usage for irrigation, artificial re-distribution of flow on the delta marine margin) as well sea level fluctuation influence upon the hydrological state of mouth zone.
	www.caspianenvironment.org /itcamp/azeri1_7.htm (971 words)

	kura-araks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		In Georgia Kura's water is not consumed for drinking purposes, but is mainly used in irrigation.
		Therefore the problem of prevention of pollution Kura and Araks is a general problem for all Caucasus countries, and the decision it largely depends on essential change of public attitude to the given problem.
		For achievement of this purpose, besides means (application purification technologies, the reduction of drains) extremely important is connection of wide layers of a public to the decision of problems of the river Kura.
	seu.iatp.ge /Kura-Araks.html (492 words)

	AQUASTAT - FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		The Kura River rises in the Kars upland in northeast Turkey.
		- The coastal river basins in the Lankaran region in the southeast, south of the Kura River basin.
		The four largest reservoirs are the Minghachevir and Shamkir on the Kura River, the Nakhchivan on the Araks River, and the Sarsangh on the Terter River.
	www.fao.org /ag/agl/aglw/aquastat/countries/azerbaijan/print1.stm (1819 words)

	Samples
		The climate in the Kura valley is subtropical with 500 to 800 mm of precipitation every year.
		The Kura valley is one of the ancient Georgian civilization sources.
		Before the entrance in the big Kura canyon on the hundred meters high slope of the left bank there are the remains of the Tmogvi fortress.
	www.raft.org /booksamples.htm (3915 words)

	Adventure Book & Guide: Rivers of an Unknown Land
		The best rivers for rafting are the Umba and the Yokan'ga. Like in Karelia, rivers usually pass the chain of lakes on their way, running down the waterfalls and rapids formed by the rocks in the riverbed.
		Thus, the numerous rivers of the Altai are assured a healthy and steady supply of water throughout the spring and summer, as the melting snow followed by melting glaciers and summer rain.
		The rivers of the region mainly belong to the Amur basin.
	www.raft.org /ruol.html (5948 words)

	CountryProfile:Environmental and geographical charastics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		The river sources are in Turkey, in the Gel hollow, at the northern foot of the Chaldir watershed at a height of 2741 m above sea level.
		According to the slopes and geomorphology the Kura River is divided into three areas: upper - from its source to the Borjom ravine inclusive (Georgia); middle - from the ravine to the mouth of the Alazani River; and lower - from the Alazani River (from the Mingachevir duct entrance) to the Kura mouth.
		In addition the presence of dissolved salts is very typical of the Araks River, which is explained by climatic conditions of the region and the existence of soluble rocks in the basin of the Araks River.
	enrin.grida.no /htmls/azer/soe/ecology/html/countryprofile_environmental_and_geographical_charastics.html (2156 words)

	Untitled
		The Kura-Aras river system is a principal source of water for industry, agriculture, residential uses and energy in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, Islamic Republic of Iran and Turkey.
		The rivers are important to regional cooperation as they cross and form many of the borders.
		Integrated, inter-country efforts are urgently required to evaluate the degree of ongoing degradation of these river ecosystems and to take action to halt and reverse damaging trends where necessary.
	www.gefonline.org /projectDetails.cfm?projID=1375 (265 words)

	UNDP Azerbaijan
		Yousif Alekperov, informed that hundreds of houses in the Salyan district (173 km south-east from Baku; population -114,900, as of January 2002), located in the vicinity to the Kura river were damaged, including nearly 1,600 affected houses in the town that were flooded, mostly, by the sub-soil waters.
		To prevent disruption of the plant's functioning, the banks are being reinforced by lime stone and cement, or concrete, on a 100-km stretch of the Kura river.
		If there is further precipitation and/or melting snow in the mountains causes the increase of the water level in the Araks and Kura rivers, the situation and international response requirements will be reassessed by the UN Resident Coordinator.
	www.un-az.org /undp/news/salyan.php (492 words)

	Green Azerbaijan
		The water - yield of the Kura river near Tbilisi region (Georgia) is 7,2 km3, near Hramchay region (Azerbaijan) is 9,1 km3 (average long-term index).
		The water-yield of the Kura river on the section of the Shamkirchay river is 10,28 km3, in the region of the Mingachaur water reservoir is 16,62 km3.
		It follows that the Kura river waters are filled up to 7,6 km3, of them 6,1 km3 fall to the share of Ganikh-Alazan (3,3 km3) and Kabirri-lori (0,82 km3) rivers.
	greenaz.aznet.org /greenaz/issues97/BT0297E.html (7056 words)

	Leon M. Mil - Azerbaijan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		In the extreme southeast are the Talysh Mountains, and in the south the Araks River Valley stretches between the Zangezur and Dilagarez ranges.
		In the plains the rivers are used for irrigation.
		The Caspian Sea and Kura River are rich in fish, especially the salmon and sturgeon.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~lmil1/lmm_azerbaijan.htm (7070 words)

	Azerbaijan, country, Asia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Strategically situated at the gateway to SW Asia, Azerbaijan is bounded by Iran on the south, where the Aras (Araks) River divides it from Iranian Azerbaijan; by the Caspian Sea on the east; by Russia’s Dagestan Republic on the north; and by Armenia on the west.
		Azerbaijan occupies the western ranges of the Greater and Lesser Caucasus and the Kura River valley.
		The Kura River valley is the region’s chief agricultural zone.
	www.bartleby.com /65/az/Azerbaij.html (934 words)

	Acipenser nudiventris
		Spawning migrations - to the Kura, Ural, Sefidrud Rivers.
		The mean fecundity of ship sturgeon in the Kura River is 594,000 (280,000-1,003,000) eggs; in the Ural River it varied in recent years from 386,500 (1999) to 561,500 (1996) eggs.
		The proportion of females in the Ural River population decreased from 48.9% (1998) to 28.4% (2000).
	www.caspianenvironment.org /biodb/eng/fishes/Acipenser%20nudiventris/main.htm (1712 words)

	Kura
		There are hydroelectric plants on the river near Tbilisi and Mingechaur; the extensive reservoir at Mingechaur is also used for irrigation.
		The lower Kura River, joined by the Araks River, its chief tributary, flows through an irrigated plain that extends into NW Iran.
		9,588), W central Georgia, on the Kura River and the Georgian Military...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0828377.html (191 words)

	Excite - Search: river+armenia
		Although many rivers flow into Lake Sevan, the main outlet is the Hrazdan River, which flows south to join the Aras (known in Armenia as the Arax) River,...
		As the source for the second largest river in Armenia, the Hrazdan, Lake Sevan literally is the source of...
		Hrazdan river is one Armenia's most important rivers because fishing and Hydro-electric plants are located along the banks of the river.
	msxml.excite.com /info.xcite/dog/webresults.htm?&qkw=river+armenia (445 words)

	Kura River: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		The name Kura is taken from the name Kurosh which is the Persian Persian language quick summary:
		Rustavi is a city in the southeast of georgia, in the province of kartli, situated 16 miles (25 km) southeast of the capital tbilisi on the kura river....
		Should not be confused with Kura river near Kursk, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ku/kura_river.htm (743 words)

	Mingechaur - Azerbaijan -Azerb.com
		The area near the Kura river is particularly pleasant, with nice restaurants and tea houses.
		The waters of the Kura river also submerged several important archaeological sites, although some of the findings can now be seen in Baku.
		The Kura River rises in Georgia and flows southeast towards the Caspian Sea.
	www.travel-images.com /az-mingechaur.html (324 words)

	Azerbaijan hunting lodges, Azerbaijan hunting vacations
		The Kura Araksinskaya Nizmennost (Kura Araks Lowland) is a large depression between the Caucasus and Malyy Kavkaz (Little Caucasus) mountain ranges, which includes the Kura and Araks rivers.
		It has a semi arid climate, but is irrigated by the Kura River and has a well developed agricultural and industrial base.
		The Upper Shirvan Canal is one of Azerbaijan's most important canals, tapping into the vast water supply of the Kura River and its Mingechaurskoye Vodokranilishche (Mingechaur Reservour).
	www.ayf-hunting.com /center.htm (469 words)

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