Wadi
Wādī Dawkah
345 km from source to mouth · Oman.
Oman1st longest in Oman
In numbers
Length
345km
Basin
31,576km²
Drop
713m
from 913 m to 200 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
345 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 913 m
- 345 kmMouthat 200 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Dhofar, Oman
It drops from 913 m to 200 m, 2.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 31,576 km², about the size of BE. 89,000 people live in it. Highest water: April; lowest: July and from September to November. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- ThamarītLargest city on its banks · 10,552 people
- Salalah International Airport (SLL)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 70 km from the cityCar hire at SLL airport (Salalah)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From November to MarchThe best months to visit
Wādī Dawkah, month by month
Highest water: April
Lowest water: July and from September to November. Best months to visit: from November to March.
From about 0.0 m³/s in the lowest month to 1.4 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
Wādī Dawkah: the basin in numbers
31,576 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 89,000people live in the basin
- 3/km²people per km²
- 616maverage altitude of the basin
- 55mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 24.5°Caverage air temperature
What covers the basin
- 17% 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
Wādī Dawkah: what you find on the way
- 2Waterfalls
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Wādī Dawkah 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.
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Jibāl al Qamar10 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
Wādī Dawkah in pictures
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q28714529) · 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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