| Banias River | |
|---|---|
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| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Banias spring[1] |
| • coordinates | 33°14′55″N 35°41′40″E / 33.24861°N 35.69444°E |
| Mouth | |
• location | Dan River |
• coordinates | 33°11′45″N 35°37′32″E / 33.1957°N 35.6256°E |
| Length | 9 km |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Upper Catchment of the Jordan River |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Sa'ar Stream Pera' Stream |
| • right | Guvta Stream Sion Stream[2] |
The Banias (Arabic: نهر بانياس, romanized: Nahr Baniyas; Hebrew: נחל חרמון, romanized: Nahal Hermon)[3] is a river flowing from the Golan Heights to Israel. It is the easternmost of the three main northern tributaries of the Jordan River; together with the Dan River and the Hasbani River, it forms the Jordan River's upper catchment (UCJR).[4] Israel has included the stream in the Hermon nature reserve.
- ^ Hartmann, Andreas (September 2008). "Process-based modelling of karst springs in Mt. Hermon, Israel" (PDF) (in English and German). University of Freiburg. p. 11. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
Banias Spring is the spring contributing most of the discharge to the Hermon stream.
- ^ "וואלה!מפות" [Walla! Maps]. Walla! (in Hebrew). Retrieved 5 August 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "Golan Heights and vicinity: October 1994". Library of Congress. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ Rimmer, Alon; Salingar, Yigal (2006). Krzysztofowicz, R. (ed.). "Modelling precipitation-streamflow processes in karst basin: The case of the Jordan River sources, Israel" (PDF). Journal of Hydrology. 331 (3–4). Elsevier: 527–528. Bibcode:2006JHyd..331..524R. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.06.003. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
Rainfall and snowmelt of Mt. Hermon recharge the main tributaries of the UCJR: (1) Dan (252 x 106 m3 annually); (2) Snir also known as Hatzbani (118 x 106 m3); and (3) Hermon also known as Banias (106 x 106 m3) (Table 2 and Fig. 2).
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