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Key facts
- Native name
- نهر اليرموك ( Arabic ) נְהַר הַיַּרְמוּךְ ( Hebrew )
- Country
- Syria , Jordan , Israel
- Region
- West Asia , Eastern Mediterranean littoral
- Location
- Hauran
- Mouth
- Jordan River
- Length
- Approx. 70 km (43 mi)
- Basin size
- Approx. 7,000 km (2,700 sq mi)
- Average
- 14.5 m /s (510 cu ft/s)
- Left
- Ruqqad , 'Allan
- Right
- Ehreir, Zeizun
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Yarmouk River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Jordan River
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- watershed area
- 7000
- discharge
- 2.6
- basin country
- Israel
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Encyclopedic overview
The Yarmuk River (Arabic: نهر اليرموك, romanized: Nahr al-Yarmūk, Hebrew: נְהַר הַיַּרְמוּךְ, romanized: Nəhar hayYarmūḵ; Greek: Ἱερομύκης, Hieromýkēs; Latin: Hieromyces or Heromicas; sometimes spelled Yarmouk) is the largest tributary of the Jordan River. It runs in Jordan, Syria and Israel, and drains much of the Hauran plateau. Its main tributaries are the wadis of 'Allan and Ruqqad from the north, Ehreir and Zeizun from the east. Although the Yarmuk is narrow and shallow throughout its course, at its mouth it is nearly as wide as the Jordan, measuring 30 ft (9.1 m) in breadth and 5 ft (1.5 m) in depth.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yarmouk River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.