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The Jordan Rift Valley was formed many millions of years ago in the Miocene epoch (23.8 – 5.3 Myr ago) when the Arabian plate moved northward and then eastward away from Africa. One million years later, the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan Rift Valley rose so that the sea water stopped flooding the area. Alternatively, it was a ...
Nowadays the Jordan Valley still is an essential part of one of the main migration routes for birds in the world; within the region, it constitutes the Eastern Route which, together with the parallel Western Route and the Southern-Eilat Mountains Route, allow an estimated 500 million birds belonging 200 species to fly across Israel twice a year ...
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The western border is the Jordan Rift Valley, where the Jordan River and the Dead Sea lie hundreds of feet below sea level and form the boundary between Jordan, to the east, and Israel and the Palestinian territories to the west. [3] The northern part of the Jordan Valley is the most fertile region of the country.
To the west the highlands drop steeply 1,000 meters or more to the Jordan Rift Valley, which contains the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, a saline lake with a surface below sea level. [ 1 ] Elevation of the higher peaks ranges from over 1,200 meters in the north to 1,700 meters at Jebel Mubarak in the south.
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The Jordan Rift Valley and the Jordan Valley (Middle East) both extend well beyond the Jordan River. The Jordan River runs through the Jordan Valley (Middle East), a geographical sub-region in its own right. The Jordan Rift Valley is a geological feature that forms part of the Great Rift Valley. Each of these items deserves their own page.
Jordan Valley may also refer to: Jordan Rift Valley, an elongated geographical depression located in modern-day Israel, Jordan, and Palestine, of which the Jordan Valley is a part; Jordan Valley, Hong Kong, north of Ngau Tau Kok, Kwun Tong District Jordan Valley (constituency), a constituency in Kwun Tong District; Jordan Valley, Oregon, U.S.