Sakarya River

Kızılırmak and Sakarya River after Turkey's third longest river, the Euphrates, Northwestern Anatolia is the largest stream. In Greek mythology, the river's name is from the River God Sangarius.

Length 824 km, the width of the basin feeding 58160 km2, its density is the amount of annual precipitation in the basin 31057 billion m3. Average annual rainfall in the basin Sakarya 524.7 mm/m2, the average annual temperature is 14.5 C. Sakarya Turkey with a size of 58160 km2 basin 7.5% while cover moves 6.40 billion m3 of water and comes with a total of 3.4% of national stream. Catchment area of the SI 7,46% ' the size of Turkey. The width of the River varies between 60 – 150 m. Basin 43.8% pasture, meadow and area farmlands 19.6%, forest and shrubland 28.7%, free space% 2 1.6%, water-covered area of the settlement areas is at a rate of 1.5%

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