Wadi Rum

river · JO · 800 m

  • UNESCO World Heritage
Wadi Rum — river
John Romano D'Orazio · CC BY-SA 4.0
Altitude
800 m

From the encyclopaedia

Wadi Rum (Arabic: وادي رم Wādī Ramm, also Wādī al-Ramm, known also as the Valley of the Moon or Red mountains, is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in southern Jordan, near the border with Saudi Arabia and about 60 km to the east of the city of Aqaba. With an area of 720 km2 it is the largest wadi in Jordan.

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