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Hari Rud - Encyclopedia.com (519 words) |
 | Hari Rud, river, c.700 mi (1,130 km) long, rising in the Kuh-e Baba range, central Afghanistan, and flowing west and then north into the steppes S of the Kara Kum desert in Turkmenistan; its lower course forms part of the Afghanistan-Turkmenistan border. |
 | We camped by the green waters of the Hari Rud, on white beaches shaded with red rocks... |
 | In the midst of fields and orchards crisscrossed by irrigation canals stood towers of beaten earth pierced with large... |
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Hari Rud (255 words) |
 | The Rudkhaneh-ye Hari Rud (sometimes Harirud) is a river flowing 1100 kilometers from the mountains of central Afghanistan to Turkmenistan, where it disappears in the Kara-Kum desert. |
 | In western Afghanistan the Hari Rud flows to the south of Herat. |
 | The river meets the Jam Rud at the site of the Minaret of Jam, said to be the second tallest minaret in the world at 65 meters. |