You can mark you interesting snippets of text that will be available through a unique link in your browser.


Tana River

Tana River
I
River, Kenya.

The country's longest river, it rises in the Aberdare Range and flows in a curve northeast, east, and south 440 mi (708 km) to the Indian Ocean. It is navigable by small craft for about 150 mi (240 km) upstream.
II
River, northeastern Norway.

It flows 224 mi (360 km) north and northeast to empty into Tana Fjord, an inlet of the Arctic Ocean on the northeastern coast of Norway. The river forms a section of the boundary between Norway and Finland.

* * *

      river, Kenya, flowing 440 miles (708 km) from its headwaters in the Aberdare Range and Mount Kenya to the Indian Ocean. Taking a northeasterly course at first, the river plunges over the Kitaru (Seven Forks) Falls (440 feet [134 m]) into a semidesert landscape that constitutes its middle course. Describing a wide arc, the Tana then veers south and opens into a wide valley, where it meanders through a floodplain subject to inundations. Kenya's longest river, it reaches the Indian Ocean at Formosa Bay, Kipini, but a former outlet lies 20 miles (32 km) southwest.

      The river is navigable by small craft for about 150 miles (240 km) upstream, often with difficulty. In the upper catchment, Sasumua Dam provides water for Nairobi. Kindaruma, at Seven Forks, is the site of a hydroelectric project, and an irrigation project at Embu provides water for rice cultivation.

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

  
Share  

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Tana River — steht für den Fluss Tana in Kenia, siehe Tana (Fluss) den Bezirk Tana River District in Kenia den Fluss Tana in Alaska, siehe Tana River (Alaska) Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unterscheidung mehrerer mit demselben Wort be …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Tana River (Norway) — Tana river ( Tanaelva in Norwegian, Deatnu in Northern Sami, Teno in Finnish, Tana älv in Swedish), is a 330 kilometer long river in Lapland, in the Norwegian county of in Finnmark and the Lapland Province of Finland. In its upper course it runs… …   Wikipedia

  • Tana River Primate Reserve — Tana River Primate Reserve, totaling eleven square miles of scattered forest patches, was set aside in 1976 in order to protect the swampy forests of the Lower Tana River and two endangered primates, the Tana River Mangabey and the Tana River Red …   Wikipedia

  • Tana, Norway — Tana kommune Deatnu gielda   Municipality   …   Wikipedia

  • Tana River District — is a district of Coast Province, Kenya. It is named after the Tana River itself. It has an area of 38,446 kilometers and a population of 180,901 according to the 1999 census. The district capital is Hola (sometimes called as Galole).The major… …   Wikipedia

  • Tana — may refer to:Places*Lake Tana, Ethiopia *Tana, a municipality in Norway *Tana, short hand form of Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar *Tana or Tanais, medieval trading city on the Sea of Azov, near the modern city of Azov. *Tana Bridge, Norway… …   Wikipedia

  • Tana River mangabey — Tana River mangabey[1] Conservation status Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[2] …   Wikipedia

  • Tana (homonymie) — Tana Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Géographie La colonie marchande vénéto génoise médiévale La Tana, située en mer d Asov sur l embouchure du Don Le lac Tana, en Éthiopie ; Le… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Tana-Zistensänger — Tana Cistensänger Systematik Klasse: Vögel (Aves) Ordnung: Sperlingsvögel (Passeriformes) Unterordnung: Singvögel (Passeri) …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Tana-Cistensänger — Systematik Klasse: Vögel (Aves) Ordnung: Sperlingsvögel (Passeriformes) Unterordnung: Singvögel (Passeri) Familie …   Deutsch Wikipedia