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About 20% of the Hasbani flow [7] emerges from the Wazzani Spring at Ghajar, close to the Lebanese-Golan Heights border, about 3 km (1.9 mi) west of the base of Mount Hermon. The contribution of the Wazzani spring is very important to the river, since this is the only continuous year-round flow into the Hasbani, in either Lebanon or Israel. [8]
Iraq's major river systems (French language map). This is a list of rivers of Iraq. Persian Gulf. Shatt al-Arab. Euphrates. Shatt al-Hayy or Gharraf Canal ...
The rivers flow in a south-easterly direction through the central plain and combine at Al-Qurnah to form the Shatt al-Arab and discharge into the Persian Gulf. [1] The rivers and their tributaries drain an area of 879,790 square kilometres (339,690 sq mi), [2] including almost the entire area of Iraq as well as portions of Turkey, Syria, Iran ...
19th century map of Lebanon and northern Palestine with modern and ancient names of rivers. This is a list of waterways named as rivers in Lebanon.Lebanon has 22 rivers all of which are non-navigable; 28 rivers originate on the western face of the Lebanon range and run through the steep gorges and into the Mediterranean Sea, the other 6 arise in the Beqaa Valley.
The Little Zab or Lower Zab (Arabic: الزاب الاسفل, al-Zāb al-Asfal; Kurdish: Zêy Koya or Zêyê Biçûk; Persian: زاب کوچک, Zâb-e Kuchak; Syriac: ܙܒܐ ܬܚܬܝܐ, Zāba Taḥtāya) is a river that originates in Iran and joins the Tigris just south of Al Zab in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The Little Zab is approximately ...
The Marsh Arabs live in Iraq and Hawizeh people live in Iran. From the time of the Sumerians and Babylonians people lived in the marshes. [2] In the southwest of Iran and the southeast of Iraq, the Hawizeh and Hammar Marshes host many small cities. These cities in the marshes are part of both countries and no border separates them.
Approximately 62 percent of the basin is located in Iraq; the remainder is in Turkey. [11] To the south, the Great Zab basin borders on that of the Little Zab while on the east it adjoins the Tigris basin. The Zagros consists of parallel limestone folds rising to elevations of over 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) amsl.
Originating in Turkey, the Euphrates flows through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab in Iraq, which empties into the Persian Gulf. The Euphrates is the fifteenth-longest river in Asia and the longest in Western Asia, at about 2,780 km (1,730 mi), with a drainage area of 440,000 km 2 (170,000 sq mi) that covers six countries.