Wadi Auja
stream in West Bank, State of Palestine
Wadi Auja (Arabic: وادي العوجا), also spelled Wadi 'Aujah, Wadi Ouja, etc., known in Hebrew as Nahal Yitav (Hebrew: נחל ייט"ב) is a valley or stream (Arabic: وادي wādī, "wadi"), in the West Bank, originating near the Ein Samia spring and flowing to Al-Auja near Jericho before it runs into the Jordan River.
Name
"Al-auja" means "the meandering one". Wadi Auja (Auja Stream) should not be confused with the Yarkon River in Israel, which flows to the Mediterranean Sea in Tel Aviv, known in Arabic by the name Nahr al-Auja (Auja River). During World War I this coincidence led to the term of "the line of the two Aujas", referring to a strategic line connecting the two river valleys.
The Hebrew name is based on the Israeli settlement Yitav, founded in 1970 on the northern river bank, next to the Palestinian village of al-Auja. "Yitav" is an acronym for Yad Yitzhak Tabenkin.
Geography
Wadi Auja is 35 kilometers long and sets the boundary between the desert and the eastern hillslopes of the West Bank. It has a drainage area of 200 square kilometers and descends from a height of approximately 1000 meters above sea level to -315 meters below sea level, where it flows into the Jordan River. The stream starts at Ein Samia, on the eastern slopes of Mount Hazor and flows eastward. Before its arrival to the Jordan Rift Valley, it forms a deep and steep gorge, some 3 kilometers long.
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