Ural River is the greatest natural heritage of the world.It is different, many-sided, allowing to recharge your batteries, life force, and just positive emotions.Admire her beauty comes a lot of tourists.The Ural River navigable.And yet there developed water tourism.It is the third largest river in Europe.Ural inferior to the length of only the Volga and the Danube.
Its length is 2428 km and a basin area - 231 thousand square kilometers.Ural bottled spring, turning into a huge deep river, overflows its banks and flooding the lowlands.But in general it is not a very affluent.
The origins of the Ural River takes high in the Ural mountains, or rather in their southern part.At this point, it looks more like a mountain stream with a rapid current, and not a very large depth (1.5 meters).After descending to the plain water, "calm down."The depth of the river in these areas much more.In some places within a cascade.
Urals - the river, which is vital to many regions and cities.Since ancient times, people settled on its banks, built cities and villages.
Ural flows through the territory of Russia, covering the Orenburg and Chelyabinsk region and Bashkortostan.Then he gets on the territory of Kazakhstan and flows into the Caspian Sea.
speed of its flow is not the same everywhere.In mountainous areas it is stormy, and the plain - measured.The average speed of 4-5 kilometers per hour.The maximum depth of the river is 6-8 meters.Near the town of Orsk, its width is 60 kilometers, near Orenburg - 90-100 kilometers, and near Uralsk - twice.
Ural River freezes around November (depending on weather conditions).In the spring (April), it is opened.At this time, particularly severe Urals.It spreads over several kilometers and flooded floodplain forests, riparian willow and numerous oxbow lakes.Crumbling water to wash the shore and takes off for uprooted old trees.
largest tributary of the Ural Mountains - a Sakmara.It stretches for 798 kilometers and has a swimming pool 30,300 square kilometers.It is 40% nourishes the Ural River.
Another is its tributary Ilek.Its length is 623 kilometers.It carries 2.5 times less water than Sakmara, but nevertheless plays an important role in ensuring the Urals water.
Ural has several major tributaries: Kumak, GPL and Guberlya.
Of the major projects built on the river, you can select Iriklinskaya Reservoir.This helped to improve the construction of the water supply of the Orenburg region and minimize flooding on the territory of the city of Orsk.Then the area was built Iriklinskaya GRES.
fauna of the river is very rich.Here it is found a large number of fish.For example, carp, perch, beluga, sturgeon, bream, white salmon, roach and sturgeon.These species of fish enter the river at spawning time.From the permanent inhabitants can be noted barbel, pike, chub, carp, carp, bullhead, burbot, and many others.In mountainous areas, you can find trout, trout and grayling.
Ural River is the province of our country, that it is imperative to preserve for posterity.
