Wadi
Wadi Al Qor
48 km from source to mouth · Oman and United Arab Emirates.
Oman and United Arab EmiratesFlows into Gulf of Oman3rd longest in Oman
In numbers
Length
48km
Average flow
0.5m³/s
Basin
496km²
Drop
177m
from 177 m to 0 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
48 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 177 m
- 48 kmGulf of Omanat 0 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 0.5 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 4,883 seconds. It drops from 177 m to 0 m, 3.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 496 km².
Where to start
- ShināşLargest city on its banks · 48,009 people
- Suhar International Airport (OHS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 43 km from the cityCar hire at SHJ airport (Sharjah)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Wadi Al Qor: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Wadi Al Qor in our other atlases
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Mountains at the source (18)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Jabal Bū Faraj11 km away889m
- Jabal Al Lattan15 km away845m
- Jabal Jīmā13 km away660m
- Jabal Abu As Samasim13 km away542m
- Jabal Al Khasfah10 km away464m
- Jabal Qitami12 km away410m
- Jabal Rihab12 km away319m
- Jabal Laim12 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 Qor in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Wadi Munay, Wadi Bu Faraj
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q104860717) · 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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