River
Nahr al-Kalb
31 km from source to mouth · Lebanon.
LebanonFlows into Mediterranean Sea3rd longest in Lebanon
In numbers
Length
31km
Average flow
3.2m³/s
Basin
288km²
Drop
634m
from 634 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
31 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 634 m
- 4 kmHrajel8,000 people
- 30 kmstelae of Nahr el-Kalb
- 31 kmMediterranean Seaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Lebanon
At the mouth it carries 3.2 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 787 seconds. It drops from 634 m to 0 m, 20 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 288 km².
Where to start
- HrajelLargest city on its banks · 8,000 people
- Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport (BEY)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 36 km from the cityCar hire at BEY airport (Beirut)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.
Along the river
Nahr al-Kalb: what you find on the way
- 1Boat ramps
- 1River beachesRimal
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Nahr al-Kalb in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1beach at the mouth or on the banksCoastya
76mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Beaches (1)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Mīnat al Ḩişn11 km away · cove28.3°C
Mountains at the source (76)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mount Sannine8.3 km away2,628m
- Jabal al-Munaytirah11 km away
- Jabal el Ouast12 km away
- Jabal ech Chalqa2.7 km away
- Dahr ech Chîr14 km away
- Ramiet ech Chouhata10 km away
- Maqial el Boraoun14 km away
- Moql Lableq12 km away
68 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Nahr al-Kalb in pictures
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Lebanon140 km23 m³/s76 km awayHasbani RiverLebanon65 km5.0 m³/s85 km awayBarada
Syria71 km7.3 m³/s109 km awayYarmuk
Israel57 km2.6 m³/s146 km awayKishon RiverIsrael70 km7.6 m³/s137 km awayOrontes River
Turkey571 km30 m³/s235 km awayJordan River
Jordan252 km52 m³/s263 km awayZarqa RiverJordan65 km6.5 m³/s205 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1963736) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
The family
Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers or canyons?
Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, month by month, in seven languages.
beaches
Find your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit 
lakes
Every lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Coming soonVisit mountains
Every summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit 
waterfalls
Every waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Coming soonVisit 
islands
Every island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Coming soonVisit 
rivers
Every river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.You are here
canyons
Every canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Coming soonVisit