The Nile Valley and the Delta
The Nile Valley and the Delta, the largest oasis on the face of the earth, were created by the world’s second longest river and seemingly inexhaustible resources.
Without the topographic channel that leads the Nile through the desert, Egypt will be a full desert; the Nile flows about 1,600 kilometers across Egypt and flows north from the Egyptian-Sudanese border into the Mediterranean. The Nile is a combination of three long rivers located in Central Africa: The White Nile, the Blue Nile, and Atbara.
The Nile reaches Egypt, a few kilometers north of Wadi Halfa, a fully rebuilt Sudanese city at a high level when the original site drowned in the Aswan Dam reservoir.
With the construction of the dam, the Nile has already begun to flow like the Nasser Sea in Egypt, extending from the 320 km dam to the border and 158 km to Sudan.
The waters of Lake Nasser fill the area through Subia (Upper Egypt and Northern Sudan) within the narrow corridor between the sandstone and granite rocks formed by the centuries-long course of the river.
Under Aswan, the cultivated flood plain is expanded to twenty kilometers. North Isna (160 km north of Aswan), the plateau rises to 550 meters above sea level on both sides of the valley.
In Qena (about 90 km north of Esna), the 300-meter-long limestone slopes force the Nile to change its route to the southwest about 60 kilometers before turning northwest to Assiut 160 kilometers.
To the north of Assiut, the steep slopes descend on both sides and the valley extends to a maximum of 22 kilometers.
The Nile reaches the delta near Cairo.
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