Wadi el-Melek

Wadi el-Melek Wadi el-Malik; Wadi al-Milk
The catchment area of ​​the Nile in Sudan with the Wadi Melek (center)
Data
location	Sudan
River system	Nile
Drain over	Nile  → Mediterranean
source	Northwest of en-Nahud 13 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  N , 27 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  E
Source height	approx.  650  m
muzzle	at ad-Dabba (Debba) coordinates: 18 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  N , 30 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  E 18 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  N , 30 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  E
length	approx. 500 km
Dried out along its entire length

The Wadi el-Melek is a wadi in Sudan .

geography

The Wadi el-Melek rises northwest of en-Nahud in the Kordofan region , first flows north, then bends northeast at around 16 ° 10 'N 28 ° 48' E, runs south along the Gebel al-Ain and joins it ad-Dabba in the Nile.

The upper reaches of the wadi system and its surroundings are characterized by steppe or dry steppe vegetation. The Wadital in the area of ​​the bend to the northeast is particularly fertile. Here the wadi serves as a grazing area for numerous semi-nomadic groups, e.g. B. the Kababish .

archeology

Numerous archaeological sites testify to a long settlement of the wadi since the Iron Age . B. the settlement of Zankor on its upper course, several medieval sites in the area of Gebel al-Ain , as well as the fortified well station Kufriyat al-Attash on its lower course, which cannot yet be precisely dated .

literature

• Sudan Survey Office, Khartoum. Topographic maps 44, 45, 54. 1927–52