Dowlatabad Garden is a historical garden in Yazd, Iran. Its 33.8 meters tall windcatcher is the tallest adobe-made windcatcher in the world. It was listed as a UNESCO world heritage site in 2011, as p
Jardín de Dolat Abad, Yazd, Irán, 2016 09 21, DD 42
Jardín de Dolat Abad, Yazd, Irán, 2016 09 21, DD 41
A qanāt or kārīz is a water supply system that was developed in ancient Iran for the purpose of transporting usable water to the surface from an aquifer or a well through an underground aqueduct. Orig
Channel of the Qanats of Ghasabeh in Iran's Razavi Khorasan Province, 2015.
Qanat in Iran's Kashan surfacing within the Fin Garden in 2005; it is thought to have served Tepe Sialk for thousands of years.
Kariz surfacing in Niavaran, a district in the Iranian capital city of Tehran, currently used for watering the grounds of the National Library and Archives of Iran, 2005.
Alluvial fan in southern Iran. Image from the Terra satellite, operated by NASA, 2004.