They accommodate about 190 sports fields or more than 170 thousand cars! Al-Waaba crater is the largest in Saudi Arabia

ArabiaWeather.com - With its sprawling area, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contains a large number of dormant volcanoes, and Al-Wa'bah volcano is the most striking, due to its huge crater, which has a diameter of about 2 kilometers, and a depth of up to 220 meters.

To clarify, when we talk about a crater with a diameter of 2000 meters, that is, we are talking about an area that accommodates about 190 sports fields, or in other words, this space accommodates more than 170 thousand cars!

Where is Al Waaba volcano located?

Al-Waaba Volcano Crater is located 6 kilometers north of the village of Hafar Kushab, which is 30 kilometers from the village of Umm Al-Dum in Taif Governorate, Saudi Arabia. The crater is covered with a white salt layer, and the reason for its acquisition of this color is due to rainwater that collects at its bottom to form a small lake of great splendor and beauty.

Some researchers attributed the presence of water inside the crater to the fall of a meteorite in ancient times, but this has not been proven until today , as the presence of palm trees, trees and desert grasses is observed around the crater, and this gives it a very aesthetic color.

Can Al Waabah volcano resume its activity?

We must realize the fact that the volcanoes spread in Saudi Arabia are dormant and not dead , which means that they may erupt at any time, and their eruption is sometimes preceded by some warnings, such as successive earthquakes that may be strong or weak, and no one can predict the time in which these will be active Volcanoes.

More than 2000 volcanoes under the territory of the Kingdom

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sits on thousands of extinct volcanoes, and experts estimate the time of these volcanoes to be approximately 25 million years old, and the number of volcanoes within the kingdom’s borders is estimated at 2,000. In “Harrat Rahat” alone, for example between Mecca and Medina, for example there is About 700 volcanoes, and there are another 400 in the "Harrat Khyber".