Wadi Zikt

Wadi Zikt (Wādī Zikt) is a dry river valley or river with ephemeral or intermittent flow, which flows almost exclusively during the rainy season, located in the northeast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Emirate of Fujairah. It forms its own drainage basin, covering an approximate area of 92 km2 (36 mi2) which limits to the north and west with that of Wadi Basseirah / Al Maksar; to the south with that of Wadi Wurayah; and to the east by the smaller basins of Wadi Sharm and Wadi al Huwaybit / Wādī Liḩw̄biţ. The main wadi, which gives its name to the entire river basin, is the Wadi Zikt, with numerous tributaries and sub-tributaries that together represent approximately 295 independent streams, most of them without known names, all classified into five grades or levels according to the Horton-Strahler numbering, forming an important drainage system, which has a length total of 434 km (270 mi). Considering the fifth-degree segment of the Wadi Zikt, its principal fourth-degree tributary on the left, a segment of a third-degree sub-tributary, and at the upper course a second and a first degree sub-tributaries, according to the Horton-Strahler number, the length of the resulting wadi is 31 km (19 mi), and places its highest river source at an altitude of 1,020 m (3, 350 ft), on the northern slope and a very short distance from the summit of Jabal Dad

Flows through: United Arab Emirates.

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