Wadi
Wadi El Natrun
40 km from source to mouth · Egypt.
Egypt3rd longest in Egypt
In numbers
Length
40km
Average flow
0.0m³/s
Basin
617km²
Drop
62m
from 33 m to -29 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
40 km of river and 8 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 33 m
- 12 kmMadīnat as Sādāt71,501 people
- 22 kmBuḩayrat al Fāsidah0.8 km²
- 25 kmBuḩayrat Umm Rīshah2.2 km²
- 28 kmBuḩayrat Rūzītā0.7 km²
- 29 kmMadīnat Wādī an Naţrūn41,186 people
- 33 kmBuḩayrat al Ḩamrā'0.6 km²
- 35 kmBuḩayrat Za‘ājīj0.9 km²
- 40 kmBuḩayrat al Bayḑah0.7 km²
- 40 kmMouthat -29 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Desert valley near the Egyptian Nile delta
At the mouth it carries 0.0 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1,250,000 seconds. It drops from 33 m to -29 m, 1.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 617 km².
Where to start
- Madīnat as SādātLargest city on its banks · 71,501 people
- Sphinx International Airport (SPX)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 47 km from the cityCar hire at CAI airport (Cairo)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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6lakes on its wayLakeyas
8mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (6)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Buḩayrat al Fāsidahkm 240.8km²
- Buḩayrat Umm Rīshahkm 282.2km²
- Buḩayrat Rūzītākm 310.7km²
- Buḩayrat al Ḩamrā'km 370.6km²
- Buḩayrat Za‘ājījkm 390.9km²
- Buḩayrat al Bayḑahkm 450.7km²
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Mountains at the source (8)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Jabal al Wasakh15 km away
- Jabal Thumaymah7.2 km away
- Jabal Shāhîn2.1 km away
- Qilā‘ at Tīn8.1 km away
- Jabal Munşif11 km away
- Jabal al ‘Abd13 km away
- Qārat at Tīn10 km away
- Al Qaţanīyah9.8 km away
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 El Natrun in pictures
Israel
PalestineWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1074945) · 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 | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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