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Wadi Shawka (literally 'powerful wadi') is a seasonal watercourse in the Hajar Mountains of Ras Al Khaimah, in the United Arab Emirates.Famous locally for the Shawka Dam, a renowned beauty spot and destination for outdoor sports, the wadi has long been an agricultural area and alongside existing farms, and many abandoned settlements exist on the sides of the wadi. [1]
The Ras Al Khaimah Transport Authority (Arabic: هيئة رأس الخيمة للمواص), commonly known as RAKTA, is the sole major independent government roads & transportation authority in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. It was founded in 2008 to improve transportation around the Emirate, it also serves public ...
The main course of the Wadi Rahabah flows from east to west, receiving in its path the contribution of several ravines and tributary wadis, to the left and right, of which the most relevant, due to its flow and length, is the Wadi Zireb, [1] tributary on the right, whose mouth occurs very shortly before the dam built in 2021 (Rahba Dam), [9] intended to feed underground water resources and ...
Dubai Creek is sometimes called a river, but is a saltwater inlet in Dubai; Wadi Afiya, in Ras Al Khaimah [1] [2]; Wadi Bakhit, in Ras Al Khaimah [3]; Wadi Bih / Wādī Al-Bayḥ / Wādī al Bīḩ, in Ras Al Khaimah, and Oman [1] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Ras Al Khaimah has been the site of continuous human habitation for 7,000 years, one of the few places in the country and the world where this is the case, [8] and there are many historical and archaeological sites throughout the emirate - local sources cite 1,000 [9] - dating from different time periods, including remnants of the Umm Al Nar Culture (3rd millennium BC). [10]
The Wadi Ghalilah (Arabic: وادي غليلة, romanized: Wādī Ghalīlah) [1] is a valley or dry river, with intermittent flow, which flows almost exclusively during the rainy season, located in the northeast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Emirate of Ras al Khaimah.
Ghalilah is a settlement in Ras Al Khaimah, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The location of a major desalination plant, [1] Ghalilah also gives its name to the Wadi Ghalilah, [2] the location of the 'Stairway to Heaven' hike. [3]
Wadi Shah (Arabic: رَأْس ٱلْخَيْمَة, also known as Wadi Shehah) is a wadi, or waterway, in the mountains of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates (UAE).A popular [1] hiking location [2] near to Jebel Jais, [3] the highest point in the UAE, Wadi Shah is also the location of the abandoned former settlement of Shah.