Emba is a river in Kazakhstan. It is one of the largest, along with such water streams as the Urals, Syr Darya, Ishim, Ili, Irtysh and Tobol. Emba immediately captures two Kazakhstani regions: Aktobe and Atyrau, and it is precisely its channel that divides the country into Asian and European parts.
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Relative to the average length of the rivers of the planet, the length of the Emba is small: only 712 km. It begins in the western part of the southern spur of the Ural Mountains, then flows along the Podural Plateau and the Caspian Lowland, capturing areas with a salty coastal swamp. Emba - a river (see photo in the article) refers to the basin of the Caspian Sea. It flows into this water area.
It tends to dry out in the summer season and divide into separated deep sections, in which fish are mainly found in small quantities. The main Emba runoff is observed in spring. It is in this season that she is full of water. The food of the river is snowy. Water contains a significant concentration of sodium chloride and therefore is highly mineralized. Emba is a river that has tributaries. The main ones are Atsaxes and Temir, which also often dry up.
Resources
In various places of Emba, important natural resources such as gas and oil are extracted. There are three separate areas: in the north, south and east. Initially, the North Emba and South Emba oil and gas units were part of one, but already in the 1980s the latter was divided into two areas that remain unchanged until now.
Territorial features
According to one version, Emba is a river along which you can draw an invisible border dividing Asia and Europe. However, according to preliminary results of the campaign of the geographic community of Russia, it became clear that there are not enough reasons to draw a border between the two parts of the continent along its channel. The reason for this is the fact that south of the city of Zlatoust the mountains of the Urals fall into several components. Further, the ridge slowly grows into plains, namely, the landmark for marking the border disappears. The Emba River does not separate Europe and Asia, because the territory it crosses is similar.
As a result, the expedition from Russia came to the following conclusion: The Caspian plain appeared when the Caspian Sea washed the desert and the Ustyurt plateau of the same name from the west. Therefore, most likely, this region should be considered the border of the European and Asian parts. As for the natural zones, Emba is located on the territory of the steppe and semi-desert.
River features
The upper part of the Emba current is a Cretaceous plateau, which is severely damaged by erosion. The lower one is located in the Caspian lowland and has a barely distinguishable slope to the sea. About 20 km from the mouth, Emba forms a delta, which has three major branches, called Kara-Uzyak, Kiyan and Kulok.
Due to frequent drying out and a very unstable source of replenishment, the river is sorely lacking water resources. It is full-flowing mainly in the spring, but in the summer it turns into many plots with immovable water. Emba is a river that after rains takes on a special color. Its waters become cloudy with a dirty milk shade.
Hydronym
In the Kazakh language, Emba has two variants of the name: Embi and Gem. The first is officially accepted. It comes from the Turkmen language. The jam is used mainly locally and is translated as “recharge”. From the name of the river comes the name of the Nogai tribe who lived earlier on Emba. However, they had to relocate due to pressure from the Kalmyks.
Animal world
Emba is a river whose fauna is rather scarce. It is easy to guess that such poverty is due to the fact that the water stream for almost the whole year consists of separate lakes with stagnant water. However, fishing on this river is possible in the spring season. In it you can catch pike, asp, chub, podust, common carp, tench and some other fish.