Wadi
Wadi Derna
75 km from source to mouth · Libya.
LibyaFlows into Mediterranean Sea
In numbers
Length
75km
Average flow
0.1m³/s
Basin
700km²
Drop
638m
from 644 m to 6 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
75 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmJebel Akhdarat 644 m
- 60 kmMansour dam
- 68 kmDerna waterfalls
- 73 kmDerna Dam
- 74 kmDarnah102,581 people
- 75 kmMediterranean Seaat 6 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Ephemeral river bed in Libya
At the mouth it carries 0.1 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 24,038 seconds. It drops from 644 m to 6 m, 8.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 700 km².
Where to start
- DarnahLargest city on its banks · 102,581 people
- Al Abraq International Airport (LAQ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 64 km from the city
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Wadi Derna: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 1WaterfallsDerna Waterfall
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Wadi Derna 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.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
1beach at the mouth or on the banksCoastya
6mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Derna waterfallskm 71
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Beaches (1)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Sāḩil Kirissah22 km away26.5°C
Mountains at the source (6)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- ‘Ilwat Umm Ḩanīyah14 km away
- Ra's al Mashal13 km away
- ‘Ilwat al Jabbārāt15 km away
- Ru'ūs al Ma‘ārik8.0 km away
- Sīrat al Mintām2.9 km away
- ‘Urqūb al Abyaḑ14 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 Derna in pictures
Nearby
Rivers nearby
GreeceWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q31911313) · 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 | Cascadyas, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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