Wadi
Wadi Naqab
50 km from source to mouth · United Arab Emirates and Oman.
United Arab Emirates and Oman2nd longest in United Arab Emirates
In numbers
Length
50km
Basin
1,603km²
Drop
162m
from 159 m to -3 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
50 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 159 m
- 50 kmWadi Halutributary
- 50 kmMouthat -3 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Wadi in Oman and United Arab Emirates
It drops from 159 m to -3 m, 3.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,603 km², about the size of GP. 189,000 people live in it. Highest water: from February to March; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Ras Al KhaimahLargest city on its banks · 351,943 people
- Ras Al Khaimah International Airport (RKT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 20 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)
- From November to MarchThe best months to visit
Wadi Naqab, month by month
Highest water: from February to March
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from November to March.
From about 0.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 4.9 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
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The basin
Wadi Naqab: the basin in numbers
1,603 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 189,000people live in the basin
- 118/km²people per km²
- 426maverage altitude of the basin
- 151mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 24.9°Caverage air temperature
What covers the basin
- 11% Cropland
- 13% Pasture
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Wadi Naqab: what you find on the way
- 1Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Wadi Naqab 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.
30mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (30)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Jabal Yibir10 km away · prominence 216 m1,527m
- Jabal Dardur11 km away1,398m
- Jabal Harf12 km away1,420m
- Jabal Baqal14 km away1,026m
- Jabal Ayuzah12 km away1,005m
- Jabal Shariya9.7 km away999m
- Jabal Wamm12 km away825m
- Jabal Al Hamri6.8 km away803m
22 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
Wadi Naqab in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Wadi Halu, Wadi Madnan
In the same basin
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q104872163) · 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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