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The Tarim Basin is an endorheic basin in Xinjiang, Northwestern China occupying an area of about 888,000 km 2 (343,000 sq mi) and one of the largest basins in Northwest China.
The Tarim River (Chinese: 塔里木河; pinyin: Tǎlǐmù Hé; Uyghur: تارىم دەرياسى, romanized: Tarim deryasi), known in Sanskrit as the Śītā, is an endorheic river in Xinjiang, China.
Tarim Basin, vast depression drained by the Tarim River in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, western China, covering about 350,000 square miles (906,500 square km) and enclosed by the Tien Shan (mountains) to the north, the Pamirs to the west, the Kunlun Mountains to the south, and the Altun.
Tarim. Look up Tarim in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tarim may refer to: Tarim, Hadhramaut, a city in Yemen. Tarim District, Yemen. Tarim River, China. Tarim Basin, China. Tarim mummies, a series of mummies which have been excavated at Niya, an oasis in the Tarim Basin.
Sep 15, 2023 · The enigmatic, extremely well-preserved mummies still defy explanation—and draw controversy. Hundreds of bodies have been excavated from cemeteries like this one around the Tarim Basin in ...
Tarim River, chief river of the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, extreme northwestern China. It lies immediately north of the Plateau of Tibet. The river gives its name to the great basin between the Tien Shan and Kunlun mountain systems of Central Asia.
The Tarim River is strategic to China but relatively unknown - CWR's Hu shares five facts we need to know. The Tarim Basin is China’s ‘Water Tower’ with 41% of its ice but also >1/3 of it faces ‘extremely high’ water stress.
May 20, 2024 · A thick plume of sand and dust hung in the air over China’s Tarim Basin in May 2024. While spring dust storms in the basin look remarkable from above, they carry implications for air quality and the health of people on the ground.
THE TARIM BASIN designates a major river and great basin located in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang of extreme northwestern CHINA, north of the TIBETAN PLATEAU. Tarim also connotes the bank of a river that flows into a lake or that becomes indistinguishable from desert sands.
Oct 28, 2021 · The dry Tarim Basin, in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of north-western China, is home to hundreds of naturally mummified human remains, all between 4,000 and 1,800 years old.
