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Wadi Sabra (river)

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

Wadi Sabra, is a canyon wadi in Jordan noted for its ruins. The Wadi has several unexcavated tombs and houses. There is also ruins of a theater, a Nabataean sanctuary and Bronze Age petroglyphs along its walls. The Wadi is 8 kilometers south of Petra. The first European to the wadi was the Frenchman L. de Laborde, who reached Wadi Sabra in 1828.

Flows through: Jordan.

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

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