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A wheat field in the Hula Valley, against the background of Mount Hermon, March 2007 Hula Valley farmland. The Hula Valley (Hebrew: עֶמֶק הַחוּלָה, romanized: ʿEmeq haḤūlā; Arabic: وادي الحولة, romanized: wadi al-Ḥūla) is an agricultural region in northern Israel with abundant fresh water that used to be Lake Hula before it was drained.
Hulah Lake is a man-made reservoir that was created by the United States Army Corps of Engineers damming the Caney River in northeastern Osage County, Oklahoma, within the Osage Indian Reservation. Hulah is an Osage word meaning "eagle”, and was the name of the farming community that was located in the valley before the construction of the dam.
Articles relating to the Hula Valley, an agricultural region in northern Israel with abundant fresh water, which used to be Lake Hula, prior to its draining. Pages in category "Hula Valley" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Hula Valley; Dead Sea* Rishon LeZion lake; Dalton lake; Qaraoun lake; Zohar lake; Agam lake; Ayanot lake; Darom lake; Yesodot lake; Netser Hazani lake; Mahoz marsh *Note: the Dead Sea is known more as the third Israeli sea for its salty water.
The Hula painted frog was thought to be extinct as a result of habitat destruction during the 1950s until the species was rediscovered in 2011. The draining of Lake Hula and its marshes in the 1950s was thought to have caused the extinction of this frog, along with the cyprinid fish Mirogrex hulensis and cichlid fish Tristramella intermedia. [4]
The "waters of Merom" used to be identified with a lake ten miles north of the Sea of Galilee, formed by the River Jordan. [3]The "waters of Merom" were previously thought to be Lake Hula, but this is disputed and the name was more likely to apply to a spring or stream in the area.
The lake’s elevation dropped to its lowest level on record – about 1,040 feet above sea level – in July 2022. It has since risen: The elevation was about 1,064 feet on Wednesday.
Lake Hula is the stopover point for tens of thousands of cranes migrating from Finland to Ethiopia every winter. In Israel, farmers set out food for them to keep them from damaging crops near the lake. [28] The number of raptors has been decreasing due to its prey becoming endangered or extinct as well as massive poisoning of some prey. About a ...