River
Hasbani River
65 km from source to mouth · Lebanon.
LebanonFlows into Jordan River2nd longest in Lebanon
In numbers
Length
65km
Average flow
5.0m³/s
Basin
640km²
Drop
731m
from 813 m to 82 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
65 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 813 m
- 52 kmGhajar2,607 people
- 65 kmJordan Riverat 82 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in the Levant
At the mouth it carries 5.0 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 500 seconds. It drops from 813 m to 82 m, 11 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 640 km².
Where to start
- GhajarLargest city on its banks · 2,607 people
- Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport (BEY)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 62 km from the cityCar hire at BEY airport (Beirut)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 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
Hasbani River: what you find on the way
- 3Waterfalls
- 2Boat rampsHaGoshrim Kayaks Starting Point
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Hasbani River 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.
62mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (62)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mount Si'on13 km away2,381m
- Mount Shaked14 km away2,012m
- mount Havusheet15 km away1,955m
- Mount Betarim14 km away
- Tell Dibbine12 km away
- Mount Kahal15 km away
- Chammis el Aarqoub13 km away
- Chiaab Rizq6.4 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
Hasbani River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Jordan River
Jordan252 km52 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Nahal Ayun
PalestineNearby
Rivers nearby
Lebanon140 km23 m³/s37 km awayYarmuk
Israel57 km2.6 m³/s62 km awayKishon RiverIsrael70 km7.6 m³/s68 km awayBarada
Syria71 km7.3 m³/s98 km awayNahr al-KalbLebanon31 km3.2 m³/s85 km awayZarqa RiverJordan65 km6.5 m³/s121 km awayYarkon RiverIsrael28 km12 m³/s144 km awayWadi MujibJordan72 km3.8 m³/s194 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1432225) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth 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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