Wadi ash-Shuwaimiyya

Wadi ash-Shuwaimiyya (2001)

The Wadi ash-Shuwaimiyya ( Arabic وادي الشويمية, DMG Wādī š-Šuwaimiyya ) is an untouched and touristically hardly developed dry valley in the south of the Sultanate of Oman . It flows into the Indian Ocean near the village of the same name, asch-Schuwaimiyya , which is around 180 kilometers northeast of Salala on the coast . The approximately 30 km long valley has dug itself deep into the limestone plateau of the hinterland of the coast on the northeastern foothills of the Dhofar Mountains . Quite wide at the beginning, but gradually it gets narrower.

Wadi ash-Shuwaimiyya is uninhabited and difficult to reach. The valley floor is dominated by gravel landscapes. Rock formations - including a solidified travertine waterfall - surround an untouched nature. Palm groves and water basins with reeds attract many animals - especially birds.

Web links

Commons : Wadi Shuwaymiyah - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Midnight Oman: Wadi Ash Shuwaymiyah (travel report)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Michael P. Searle: Preserving Oman's geological heritage: proposal for establishment of World Heritage Sites, National GeoParks and Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) . In: Geological Society, London (Ed.): Geological Society London Special Publications . tape 392 , no. 1 , January 2014, ISSN 0305-8719 , p. 33 , doi : 10.1144 / SP392.2 ( lyellcollection.org [accessed July 10, 2019]).
^ Mike Searle: Geology of the Oman Mountains, Eastern Arabia. Geoguide . Springer, Cham 2019, ISBN 978-3-03018452-0 , pp. 414 ( full text in Google Book Search).

17,929 55,558Coordinates: 17 ° 55 ′ 44 ″ N , 55 ° 33 ′ 29 ″ E

[:0-1] A ^b Michael P. Searle: Preserving Oman's geological heritage: proposal for establishment of World Heritage Sites, National GeoParks and Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) . In: Geological Society, London (Ed.): Geological Society London Special Publications . tape 392 , no. 1 , January 2014, ISSN 0305-8719 , p. 33 , doi : 10.1144 / SP392.2 ( lyellcollection.org [accessed July 10, 2019]).

[2] Mike Searle: Geology of the Oman Mountains, Eastern Arabia. Geoguide . Springer, Cham 2019, ISBN 978-3-03018452-0 , pp. 414 ( full text in Google Book Search).