Sumbar River

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.

Geography

The Sumbar is 245 kilometres (152 mi) long and drains a basin of 8,300 square kilometres (3,200 sq mi). 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 37°59′28″N 55°16′29″E / 37.99111°N 55.27472°E.

Notes

  1. ↑ 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

References

This article includes content derived from the article "Сумбар" in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978.