Wadi
Wadi Al Helo
45 km from source to mouth · United Arab Emirates and Oman.
United Arab Emirates and OmanFlows into Gulf of Oman3rd longest in United Arab Emirates
In numbers
Length
45km
Average flow
0.2m³/s
Basin
221km²
Drop
120m
from 119 m to -1 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
45 km of river and 0 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 119 m
- 26 kmGulf of Omanat -1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Wadi in United Arab Emirates and Oman
At the mouth it carries 0.2 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 11,161 seconds. It drops from 119 m to -1 m, 2.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 221 km².
Where to start
- KalbāLargest city on its banks · 37,545 people
- Fujairah International Airport (FJR)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 7 km from the cityCar hire at SHJ airport (Sharjah)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
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Along the river
Wadi Al Helo: what you find on the way
- 1Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Wadi Al Helo in our other atlases
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11mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (11)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Jabal Qitab8.4 km away998m
- Jabal Al Lattan8.9 km away845m
- Jabal Rumh11 km away365m
- Jabal Al Khasfah3.0 km away464m
- Jabal Gral12 km away
- Jabal Azbā'14 km away112m
- Qarn Shuwaynah15 km away70m
- Khaţmat Malāḩah14 km away
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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
Wadi Al Helo in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Wadi Al Ejili, Wadi Mudayq
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q104862362) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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