Faiyum Oasis
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The Faiyum Oasis is a depression or basin in the desert immediately west of the Nile, 62 miles south of Cairo, Egypt. The extent of the basin area is estimated at between 1,270 km2 and 1,700 km2. The
Faiyum Oasis (2008)
Jean-Léon Gérôme, View of Medinet El-Fayoum, c. 1868–1870
Shore of Birket Qarun, Faiyum
Palm tree
Bahr Yussef
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The Bahr Yussef is a canal which connects the Nile River with Faiyum Oasis in Egypt.
Faiyum Oasis
…basin area is estimated at between 1,270 km2 (490 mi2) and 1,700 km2 (656 mi2). The basin floor comprises fields watered by a channel of the Nile, the Bahr Yussef, as it drains into a desert hollow to the west of the Nile Valley. The Bahr Yussef veers west through a narrow neck of land north of Ihnasya, between…
Bahr Yussef near the town of Minya