Wadi Rahabah

Wadi Rahabah (Wādī Raḩbah), is a dry valley or river with intermittent flow, which flows almost exclusively during the rainy season, located in the northeast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. It forms its own drainage basin, with an approximate area of 12.42 km2 (4.80 mi2), to the north, it limits with the drainage basins of wadis and smaller ravines that pour their waters directly into the Persian Gulf and with the sub-basin of the Wadi Halhal, a tributary of the Wadi Ghalilah; to the east and southeast, with the Wadi Jib sub-basin, a tributary of the Wadi Shah / Wadi Shehah; to the south with the Wadi Bakhit basin; and to the west with the inlet and coastal wetland of Khawr Hulaylah, into which it flows, located in the Persian Gulf, next to the town of Seih Al Qurum (Qurm), northwest of the town of Kabdah, and north of the city of Ar Rams. The source of the main channel of the Wadi Rahabah is located approximately 1,350 m (4, 430 ft) altitude on the western slope of Jabal Rahabah (1,543 m (5, 062 ft)), one of the highest mountains in the country, almost at the foot of the Rahabah South Col (1,470 m (4, 820 ft)), on the Jabal ar Rahrah Ridge. A short distance from the wall of the great cliff that forms the western slope of Jabal Rahabah, are the ruins of an old village, with numerous dry stone constructions, and there is

Flows through: United Arab Emirates.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.