The Great River Nile

The Great River Nile
The Nile River is the largest river in Africa and has been considered until recently the world's longest river, however, recent studies of 2007 and 2008 have redefined the birthof the Amazon River in southern Peru in rather than in the north, making it the longest river in the world.
The source further away from Lake Victoria is the Kagera River, located in northwesternTanzania: if we consider it as a source of the Nile, his birth would be the longest watercourse of which flow into the Mediterranean, the Nile, Kagera being the second longest river in the world, with alength of 6756 kilómetros.
The Nile took its present configuration at the end of the Tertiary. Located northeast of the continent. Born in Burundi and has two major tributaries, the White Nile andBlue Nile. The first crosses the Great Lakes of Africa, taking its most distant source in Rwanda and flows north through Tanzania, Lake Victoria, Uganda, South Sudan and Sudan, while the Blue Nilestarts at Lake Tana in Ethiopia, and flows along the southern Sudan. Both are near the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
The northern part of the river flows almost entirely through the desert between Sudanand Egypt, an area whose civilization has depended on the river for millennia. Most of the population of Egypt and all its cities, with the exception of the Nile Delta and oases, are found along theNile valley north of Aswan, and most cultural attractions and historical are along the river banks. The mouth of the river forms the Delta of the Nile, which flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
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The Nile leaves Lake Victoria at Ripon Falls near Jinja, Uganda, under the name of Victoria Nile. It flows about 500 kilometers, Lake Kyoga, until it reaches Lake Albert. After leaving this lake isnamed after Albert Nile. From this flows into Sudan, where it is known as "Jabal Al Bahr" (Mountain River or Upper Nile). The river el-Ghazal (Bahr al-Ghazal) is 716 miles long and joins "Jabal Al...