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Wadi el Kuf Bridge (Formal Arabic: جسر وادي الكوف, Jisr Wadi Al Kuf), is a bridge located 20 km west of Bayda, Libya. It is the second highest bridge in Africa. It was designed by Italian civil engineer Riccardo Morandi. Construction of the bridge began in 1965 and the bridge was opened in 1972. The bridge crosses the Kouf Valley.
Bayda Jabal al Akhdar [S 1] ... Jabal al Akhdar [S 1] 2: Giuliana Bridge: جسر جليانة: 120 m (390 ft) ... Wadi el Kuf Old Bridge: جسر وادي الكوف ...
'The White Valley'), locally known as Wadi al-Jinn (Arabic: وادي الجن, romanized: Wādī al-Jinn, lit. 'Valley of the Jinns '), is a valley and an anti-gravity hill in al-Baida Park [ 1 ] [ 2 ] located approximately 30 kilometers northwest of Medina in the Medina Province of Saudi Arabia . [ 3 ]
The park is very close to Wadi el Kuf Bridge. Almost 180 kilometres (110 mi) north-east of Benghazi, 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Al Bayda town on the north-eastern side of Libya. [5] It covers a land area of 35,000 hectares (86,000 acres) with a coastline of 20 km.
Bayda means a desert without water and grass, [11] and as an expression it is the name of a vast desert that is located to the 9 kilometer to the southwest of Medina and after Dhu al-Halifa; it likewise has been divided in two southern and northern parts through the way of Medina to Jeddah and Mecca.
It is also the site of cliffs (at the northern end of the Farafra Depression), sand dunes (part of the Great Sand Sea), as well as Wadi Hennis and oases at Ain El Maqfi and Ain El Wadi. White Desert National Park covers an area of 300 km 2 (120 sq mi). The highest point in the park is at El Qess Abu Said at 353 m (1,158 ft) above sea level, and ...
General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge, 1962 Maracaibo, Venezuela (2013 photo). Viadotto Polcevera, 1967 Genoa, Italy (2010 photo) Wadi el Kuf Bridge, 1972 Bayda, Libya (2004 photo) Morandi was born in Rome. After his graduation in 1927, Morandi gained experience in Calabria working with reinforced concrete in earthquake-damaged areas. On his return to ...
The Al Baydha Project, [1] in rural, western Saudi Arabia, is a land restoration, poverty-alleviation, and heritage preservation program, based on principles of permacultural and hydrological design. Located roughly 50 km (31 mi) south of Mecca, in Makkah Province, Al Baydha is an area characterized by the rocky, arid, foothills of the Hijaz ...