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Wadi Hammamat

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

Wadi Hammamat (Wādī al-Ḥammāmāt, lit. 'Valley of Many Baths', Coptic: ⲣⲱⲉⲛⲧⲟⲩ, rōhentou, lit. 'gateway to India', Egyptian Ro-Henu "Mouth to the Interior") is a dry river bed in Egypt's Eastern Desert, about halfway between Al-Qusayr and Qena. It was a major mining region and trade route east from the Nile Valley in ancient times, and three thousand years of rock carvings and graffiti make it a major scientific and tourist site today.

Flows through: Egypt.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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