Beautiful places in Jordan .. Wadi Al Arab Dam
ArabiaWeather.com - Omar Dajani - The nature of Jordan, as a result of its geographical location close to the Mediterranean Sea and adjacent to the Jordan Valley on the one hand, and the desert on the other, is characterized by a lot of diversity that connects the northern mountains crowded with farms and forests and huge rocky mountains in the south, arid deserts in the east, and hot, low-altitude agricultural valleys in the west.
This great difference between the regions of Jordan, despite its small size, sometimes generates beautiful natural landscapes, which need care and attention so as not to be affected by ruin and destruction, and we will show you on the Arab Weather site some beautiful tourist areas that many may not know about, and this time we will talk about Wadi Arabs in Irbid Governorate and the beautiful dam in which it was built.
Wadi Al-Arab Dam is one of the dams designed to store irrigation water in the northwestern side of Irbid Governorate, northern Jordan. It is a rocky cumulus dam built on a small, semi-permanent watercourse called Wadi Al-Arab, with a storage capacity of about 20 million cubic meters, and it is used extensively. Major irrigation of agricultural lands in Irbid.
The nature surrounding the valley formed a natural park from it, and it is visited by the residents of the northern regions in particular during the winter and spring seasons, when the green grass cover spreads at that time, and moderate weather conditions prevail unless there are depressions, when visiting the place is fraught with dangers, due to the flow of water to it From all sides.
Some residents of northern Jordan also come to the dam for the purpose of catching some types of fish, but the fish are generally small in size, and their length does not exceed several centimeters, despite the risks involved in this matter, as the Civil Defense has recorded during the past years several cases of drowning as a result of entering the The water of the dam is for the purpose of swimming or fishing, as it is preferable for public safety to walk only around the waters of this artificial pond and not risk entering it, as this violates the instructions.
The best time to visit the dam in terms of weather is during the spring, when moderate temperatures prevail, in contrast to the extremely hot summer days.
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