Sumbar River
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The Sumbar (also Sari-su, Sara-su and Ṣáríṣú) is a fast flowing river in southern Turkmenistan and northern Iran. It a tributary of the Atrek. The name Sari-su means yellow water in Turkic languages, but is applied to a number of other rivers as well.
[edit] Geography
The Sumbar is 245 km long and drains a basin of 8300 km². It arises in the Kopet Dag mountains in Iran and flows into Turkmenistan. For a long stretch before the Sumbar runs into the Atrek, it is separated from it by a range of hills called the Marábeh.[1] The Atrek becomes the Turkmenistan-Iran border where the Sumbar flows into it, at .
[edit] Notes
- ^ Fraser, James Baillie (1838) "Notes on the Country Lying between the Meridians of 55° and 64° East, and Embracing a Section of the Elburz Mountains in Northern Khorásán" Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 8: pp. 308-316, p. 310
[edit] References
- This article includes content derived from the article "Сумбар" in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978.
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