Wadi
Wadi Auja
208 km from source to mouth · Palestine.
PalestineFlows into Jordan River
In numbers
Length
208km
Average flow
47m³/s
Basin
17,341km²
Drop
997m
from 618 m to -379 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
208 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 kmEin Samiaat 618 m
- 37 kmDar‘ā97,969 people
- 208 kmJordan Riverat -379 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Stream in West Bank, State of Palestine
At the mouth it carries 47 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 53 seconds. It drops from 618 m to -379 m, 4.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 17,341 km², about the size of SZ. 7.3 million people live in it. Highest water: from January to February; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Dar‘āLargest city on its banks · 97,969 people
- Marka International (Amman Civil) Airport (ADJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 73 km from the cityCar hire at ADJ airport (Amman)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From March to May and from October to NovemberThe best months to visit
Wadi Auja, month by month
Highest water: from January to February
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from March to May and from October to November.
From about 7.6 m³/s in the lowest month to 120 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
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Wadi Auja: the basin in numbers
17,341 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 7.3millionpeople live in the basin
- 422/km²people per km²
- 579maverage altitude of the basin
- 355mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 17.8°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 1.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 6% Forest
- 50% Cropland
- 12% Pasture
- 14% Towns and cities
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 Auja: what you find on the way
- 4WaterfallsMetsar waterfall and 3 more
- 1River beachesSynthetic beach
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Wadi Auja 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.
10mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (10)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Tulūl ath Thughrah13 km away
- Nuqrat al Aţrash13 km away
- Tall al Ma‘qūd8.5 km away
- Tilāl al Madhbaḩ14 km away
- Tulūl Ḩayyān14 km away
- Al Mabrūmah ash Shamālīyah12 km away
- Jabal aţ Ţunayb15 km away
- Al Mabrūmah al Janūbīyah10 km away
2 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 Auja in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Jordan River
Jordan252 km52 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
Jordan65 km6.5 m³/s25 km awayWadi MujibJordan72 km3.8 m³/s48 km awayYarmuk
Israel57 km2.6 m³/s84 km awayYarkon RiverIsrael28 km12 m³/s76 km awayKishon RiverIsrael70 km7.6 m³/s114 km awayLitani River
Lebanon140 km23 m³/s164 km awayHasbani RiverLebanon65 km5.0 m³/s146 km awayBarada
Syria71 km7.3 m³/s201 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q28221672) · 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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