Arabah
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The Arabah/Araba or Aravah/Arava is a loosely defined geographic area located south of the Dead Sea drainage basin and north of the Gulf of Aqaba in southeastern Israel and southwestern Jordan.
Date palm plantation in the Israeli Arava
Southern tip of the Arava with King Hussein International Airport, Aqaba and the Gulf of Aqaba seen from Israel
Nahal Barak, in Israel's Southern District, is part of a system of streams draining the Arava desert.
Wadi Arabah and the Edom Mountains in Jordan, seen from Israel
Jordan Rift Valley
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The Jordan Rift Valley, also Jordan Valley, is an elongated endorheic basin located in modern-day Israel, Jordan, Palestine and Syria. This geographic region includes the entire length of the Jordan R
Arabah
…southwestern Jordan. The old meaning, which was in use up to around the early 20th century, covered almost the entire length of what today is called the Jordan Rift Valley, running in a north–south orientation between the southern end of the Sea of Galilee and the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba of the Red Sea at…
Bik'at Hayarden
Northern section of the Great Rift Valley. The Sinai Peninsula is in center and the Dead Sea and Jordan River valley above.
View of the Jordan Valley, where the earthquake occurred