The Analysis of Hydro-Morphometric Characteristics of Qaladze Basin

Abstract

The research attempts to identify the fundamental standard characteristics of the Qaladze River Basin's water drainage network. One of the permanent rivers in Pishdar district's east, Sulaymaniyah Governorate's northeast, and Kurdistan Region's east. The most notable topographic elements that constituted the morphometric characteristics throughout the Pleistocene era were the most prominent geomorphological processes, most notably stream orders, the most extensive streams, drainage density, bifurcation ratio, texture ratio, and meandering coefficient. In the main Qaladze basin (6) stream orders, total number of streams is up to (358) tributaries, and their full-lengths are (235.56 km). The drainage density was attained (2 km/km2). In contrast, the numerical drainage density was obtained (3,03 streams/km2), the bifurcation ratio ranged between (2-7.22), the texture ratio was implemented (5.21 km), the meandering coefficient was struck (1.2), the extraction and flood coefficient was accomplished (8.2), and the runoff speed reached (3.9 m/s).