the tigris and euphrates rivers flow through iraq and parts of turkey, syria, iran, saudi arabia, kuwait, and jordan.
the tigris and euphrates rivers flow through iraq and parts of turkey, syria, iran, saudi arabia, kuwait, and jordan.
location of countires the tigris and euphrates rivers flow through on a map?
iraq and parts of turkey, syria, iran, saudi arabia, kuwait, and jordan
tigris–euphrates river system









































the tigris and euphrates, with their tributaries, form a major river system in western asia. from sources originating in eastern turkey, they flow by/through syria through iraq into the persian gulf. the system is part of the palearctic tigris–euphrates ecoregion, which includes iraq and parts of turkey, syria, iran, saudi arabia, kuwait, and jordan.
tigris–euphrates river system
the two main watercourses of mesopotamia, which give the region its name, are the euphrates and the tigris, which flow from anatolia to the persian gulf. the euphrates is around 2,800 km long and the tigris is about 1,900 km. their regime is of the pluvio-nival type, with high flow in spring as a result of melting snow and when rains fall in upper mesopotamia. this is more accentuated with the tigris, which receives several tributaries from the zagros during the second part of its course, while the euphrates has only a minor tributaries in upper mesopotamia. thus its output is weaker, especially since it crosses flatter areas and has a wide bend in syria which slows its flow. floods of the rivers thus take place in spring - in april for the tigris and in may for the euphrates (shortly after or during the harvest). their baseflow occurs in summer at the time of greatest heat, when evapotranspiration is very high, especially in the south. the variability of flow rate over the year is very great - up to 4:1. the discharge of the euphrates and its floods were weaker than those of the tigris, so it was on particularly on its banks that agricultural communities of southern mesopotamia focused. in this region, the ground is very flat, leading to bifurcation, which results in islands and marshes, as well as sudden changes of course, which occurred several times in antiquity. both rivers carry silt which raised them above the level of the surrounding plain, making it easy to irrigate the land surrounding them. however, it also meant that their floods had the potential to cause serious damage and could cover a vast area. the flatness of the region also meant that the phreatic zone and the stream bed were very close, causing them to rise in periods of flooding. in modern times, the tigris and euphrates join together to form the shatt al-arab which then debouches in the persian gulf, but in antiquity, their delta did not reach so far south, because it was created slowly by the deposition of alluvium.
agriculture in ancient mesopotamia