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The Wadi Derna is a river valley in Libya which leads down from the Jebel Akhdar mountains to the port city of Derna. Like many other wadis in North Africa, it is an intermittent riverbed that for much of its length contains water only when heavy rain occurs. [1] It is 75 kilometres (47 mi) long [2] and drains a drainage basin of 575 km 2.
Map of the Wadi Derna watershed, covering 540 km² in eastern Libya Derna is located at the eastern end of the Jebel Akhdar , one of the very few forested areas in Libya; due to its arid climate, forest makes up a mere 0.1% of Libya's land area.
Map of Libya with some of the most important wadis. Map of Libya's regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. This is a list of wadis in Libya.This list is arranged by region from west to east, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Flash floods were unleashed down Wadi Derna, a river running from the mountains through the city and into the sea. People walk through debris after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Libya ...
Images taken by satellite show the physical devastation from a flood that killed at least 11,300 people in the eastern Libyan city of Derna. Two dams above Derna burst early Monday under the ...
The Derna dam is 75 meters (246 feet) high with a storage capacity of 18 million cubic meters (4.76 billion gallons). The second dam, Mansour, is 45 meters (148 feet) high with a capacity of 1.5 ...
Aljabal Alakhdar (Libya) The Jebel Akhdar is Libya's wettest region. Annual rainfall averages between 400 and 600 millimeters. The Jebel Akhdar (Arabic: الجبل الأخضر al-Jabal al-Akhḍar Arabic pronunciation: [ald͡ʒabal alʔaxdˤar], Italian: Gebel el-Achdar, English: The Green Mountain) is a heavily forested, fertile upland area in northeastern Libya.
The major destruction came when two dams on the Wadi Derna River burst, creating a wall of water that destroyed everything in its path. ... Death toll soars to 11,300 from 'dam of death' in Derna ...