Abraham River | |
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Location | |
Towns and villages | Aaqoura, Adonis, Afqa, Ghabat, Yanouh, Qartaba, Janne, Maaysra, Nahr Ibrahim |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Mount Lebanon |
Mouth | Mediterranean Sea |
• location | Nahr Ibrahim |
Discharge | |
• location | Mediterranean Sea from Nahr Ibrahim |
• average | 16,1 m³/s |
Basin features | |
Bridges | 1 (Highway M51) |
The Nahr Ibrahim (Arabic: نَهر إبراهيم; Abraham River) also known as Adonis River (نَهر أَدونيس), is a small river in the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon, with a length of about 23 km. The river emerges from two sources: The Roueiss grotto in Aaqoura that provides two thirds the flow of the Nahr Ibrahim and from a huge cavern, the Afqa Grotto, that provides a third of the flow, nearly 1.5 km above sea level before it drops steeply through a series of falls and passes through a sheer gorge through the mountains.[1] It passes through the town of Nahr Ibrahim before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea. The city takes its name from the river (nahr means river in Arabic).