Jabal Qihwi or Jabal Qa'wah () (), along with the

Jabal Al Harim Jabal Al Harim or Jebel Al Harim () is a peak located in the Hajar Mountains range, north of the Sultanate of Oman, in the Musandam Governorate. It is the highest mountain in the Musandam Peninsula. It has an elevation of , a prominence of a ...

()www.peakbagger. com - Jebel al Harim, Oman
/ref> and Jabal Bil Ays / Jebel Jais (), www.peakbagger.com - Jabal Bil Ays, Oman
/ref> are the three highest and most representative mountains of the

Musandam Governorate The Musandam Governorate () is a governorate of Oman. With the exception of the exclave of Madha, it is located on the Musandam Peninsula, which juts into the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow entry into the Persian Gulf, from the Arabian Peninsula ...

, in

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. Jabal Qihwi has a

prominence In topography, prominence or relative height (also referred to as autonomous height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling ...

of and a

topographic isolation The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum geographical distance, horizontal distance to a point of equal elevation, representing a radius of dominance in which the peak is the highest point. It can be calculated for small hills and is ...

of , and rises in the central area of the western boundary of the

drainage divide A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins. On rugged land, the divide lies along topographical ridges, and may be in the form of a single ...

of Karsha / Wadi Khabb Shamsi. Its summit lies on the

, between the basins of the Wadi Khabb Shamsi (which pours into the

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) and the

Wadi Bih Wadi Bih () is a wadi that crosses the North-Western Hajar Mountains from the United Arab Emirates, and traversing Oman before returning to the UAE. From the West to the East, the crossing originates in Ras Al Khaimah, before cutting through the ...

, which has its main sources of origin on the southern and eastern slopes of the

(), also in the Musandam Governorate, and pours into the

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, landing in

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territory. The steep slope of the mountain, divided into short and high steps, contains two relevant peaks: the northern peak (Jabal Qihwi), and a lesser peak to the south, on which there is a

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, is named Jabal Khabb in some maps, with an elevation of . At north of Jabal Qihwi is the village and

mountain pass A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since mountain ranges can present formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both Human migration, human and animal migration t ...

of Aqabat al Asu / Aqabat Oso, Tribulus - Volume The Flora of the Ru'us al-Jibal -the Mountains of the Musandam Peninsula: An Annotated Checklist and Selected Observations - Gary R. Feulner - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2011 situated also on the water divide line, at . Through this

runs a dirt road of , called ''Wadi Khabb Shamsi Road'', which starts at

Dibba Al-Baya Dibbā Al-Bayʿah () is geographically part of the Dibba region that faces the Arabian Sea, and is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the south. It is a ''Wilayat'' in the ''Muhafazah'' of Musandam, Sultanate of Oman, on the east coast of t ...

, and terminates at the Wadi Bih - Ras Al Khaimah Road (both ends in the

), and can be used for all-terrain vehicular traffic. The route employs a good deal of the

river bed A streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river and is confined within a channel or the banks of the waterway. Usually, the bed does not contain terrestrial (land) vegetation and instead supports different types of aquatic vegeta ...

of the Wadi Khabb Shamsi and some of its tributaries, and to cross the

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have aris ...

overcomes an accumulated positive slope of and a negative slope of .

Toponymy

Alternative names: Jabal Kawa, Jabal Qa`wa, Jabal Qa`wah, Jabal Qa‘wa, Jabal Qa‘wah, Jabal Qihwi, Jebel Qihwi. The name of the Jabal Qihwi (with the spellings Jabal Qa'wah and Jabal Qa'awah) appears recorded in the documents and maps prepared between 1950 and 1960 by the British Arabist, cartographer, military officer and diplomat

Julian F. Walker Sir Julian Fortay Walker CMG MBE (;7 May 1929 – 7 July 2018), also known by his initials J. F. Walker, was a British Arabist, author, cartographer, land surveyor, former military officer and a retired diplomat who worked closely with Sheikh ...

, for the work carried out to establish the borders between the then called

Trucial States The Trucial States, also known as the Trucial Coast, the Trucial Sheikhdoms, or Trucial Oman, was a group of tribal confederations to the south of the Persian Gulf (southeastern Arabia) whose leaders had signed protective treaties, or truce ...

, later completed by the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom, on 1:100,000 scale maps published in 1971, and in other previous documents kept in the

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Population

The geographical area of Jabal Qihwi was historically populated by the semi-nomadic

Shihuh The Shihuh (, ') is an Arab tribe living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman. In the singular, the name is Al Shehhi, a common family name in the UAE and Oman today. Inhabiting the northern part of the Hajar Mountain range, specifically in ...

tribe, section of Bani Shatair (), one of the two main sections of the tribe, which occupied, among other territories, the tribal areas of Maqadihah and Dihamara. https://www.agda.ae/en/catalogue/tna/fo/371/132894/n/76 Tribes of Trucial States coast - Ref. FO 371/132894 - 1958 - The National Archives, London, England

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