Godzareh depression

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Satellite image of the Godzareh depression in southwestern Afghanistan

The Godzareh depression (also Gowd-e Zereh Meaning: The Lap of Greenery) is the lowest part of an inland drainage basin covering large parts of southern Afghanistan and Iran known as the Sistan Basin. The Sistan Basin is an endorheic basin and encompasses a complex system of rivers, shallow lakes, marshes and wetlands as its watershed, draining into the Hamun Lakes in southeastern Iran. Occasional outflows from these lakes are carried back into Afghanistan by the seasonal Shile river to the basin's terminus, the Godzareh depression in Afghanistan. The depression is flat and very shallow with fine textured sediment at its lowest portions. The lowest section of the Godzareh depression is 467 m above sea level. The depression only receives runoff water when the main tributaries are overflowing every 10 years on the average.[1][2][3]

In general, a geological depression is a landform that is sunken or lower than the surrounding area. The Godzareh depression is the lowest point in the Sistan Basin in Afghanistan and therefore is the terminus to which all the water flows.[4]

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Notes

  1. ↑ "The Geography of Hamun". Retrieved 2007-07-20. 
  2. ↑ "DAŠT-e NĀWOR". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved 2007-07-20. 
  3. ↑ "IWRM for the Sistan Closed Inland Delta, Iran". WL Delft Hydraulics. Retrieved 2009-02-18. 
  4. ↑ "Restoration, Protection and Sustainable Use of the Sistan Basin". Retrieved 2007-07-20. 

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Coordinates: 29°50′07″N 61°56′30″E / 29.83528°N 61.94167°E / 29.83528; 61.94167

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