Wadi Derna

Wadi Derna
Wadi Derna
	Wadi Derna, January 2010
	Wadi Derna drainage basin (Interactive map)
Physical characteristics
Mouth	Mediterranean Sea
• coordinates	32°46′02″N 22°39′05″E / 32.7672°N 22.6514°E
Basin features
Cities	Derna
Waterfalls	Derna waterfalls

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 km².

^ Mellen, Ruby; Karklis, Laris; Granados, Samuel; Ledur, Júlia; Stillman, Dan (12 September 2023). "Mapping why Libya's floods were so deadly". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
^ C.B.M. McBurney; R.W. Hey (1955). "VII, Tufaceous deposits". Prehistory and Pleistocene Geology in Cyrenaican Libya. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521056243. Retrieved 2023-09-14 – via books.google.co.uk.

[WP_Derna_floods-1] Mellen, Ruby; Karklis, Laris; Granados, Samuel; Ledur, Júlia; Stillman, Dan (12 September 2023). "Mapping why Libya's floods were so deadly". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 September 2023.

[2] C.B.M. McBurney; R.W. Hey (1955). "VII, Tufaceous deposits". Prehistory and Pleistocene Geology in Cyrenaican Libya. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521056243. Retrieved 2023-09-14 – via books.google.co.uk.

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