Ein Nymphit (, lit. ''Nymphit Spring'') is a small nature reserve northwest of
Tel Afek
Tel Afek, (), also spelled Aphek and Afeq, is an archaeological site located in the coastal hinterland of the Ein Afek Nature Reserve, east of Kiryat Bialik, Israel. It is also known as Tel Kurdani.
History Chalcolithic
The site has remains ...
, south of
Kfar Masaryk
Kfar Masaryk (, ) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in Western Galilee near the Belus River and south of Acre, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In , it had a population of .
History
The founders were J ...
,
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
.
History
Ein Nymphit is named for a perennial spring that produces clean clear water. The water flows from the spring to
Nahal Na'aman, filling some pools on the way. The spring is named for the ''
Nymphaea caerulea
''Nymphaea nouchali'' var. ''caerulea'', is a water lily in the genus '' Nymphaea'', a botanical variety of '' Nymphaea nouchali''.
It is an aquatic plant of freshwater lakes, pools and rivers, naturally found throughout most of the eastern h ...
'' that grows nearby.
The reserve is 62
dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amo ...
s, declared in 1968.
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Cyperus
''Cyperus'' is a large genus of about 700 species of sedges, distributed throughout all continents in both tropical and temperate regions.
Description
They are annual or perennial plants, mostly aquatic and growing in still or slow-moving ...
'',
Longleaf Pondweed flowers grow on the reserve, in addition to ''Nymphaea caerulea''
See also
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Geography of Israel
The geography of Israel is very diverse, with desert conditions in the south, and snow-capped mountains in the north. Israel is located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea in West Asia. It is bounded to the north by Lebanon, the northe ...
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Wildlife of Israel
The wildlife of Israel includes the flora and fauna of Israel, which is extremely diverse due to the country's location between the temperate and the tropical zones, bordering the Mediterranean Sea in the west and the desert in the east. Spe ...
References
{{Nature reserves of Israel
Nature reserves in Israel
Springs of Israel