This is a list of rivers in

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Many of these rivers are seasonal.

Dead Sea

Rivers and streams flowing into the

Dead Sea The Dead Sea (; or ; ), also known by #Names, other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east, the Israeli-occupied West Bank to the west and Israel to the southwest. It lies in the endorheic basin of the Jordan Rift Valle ...

Jordan River with affluents

The Jordan River is the major river flowing into the Dead Sea from the north. It also is the northern part of the western border of Jordan. Its affluents are listed from north to south. *

Jordan River The Jordan River or River Jordan (, ''Nahr al-ʾUrdunn''; , ''Nəhar hayYardēn''), also known as ''Nahr Al-Sharieat'' (), is a endorheic river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee and drains to the Dead ...

Yarmouk River The Yarmuk River (, ; Greek: Ἱερομύκης, ; or ''Heromicas''; sometimes spelled Yarmouk) is the largest tributary of the Jordan River. It runs in Jordan, Syria and Israel, and drains much of the Hauran plateau. Its main tributaries are ...

- largest tributary of the Jordan and forms part of the northern border of Jordan with Syria and Israel. Flows into the Jordan just south of the Sea of Galilee ** Wadi al-'ArabMap of the Lower Jordan River
from Sarig Gafny, Samer Talozi, Banan Al Sheikh, Elizabeth Ya’ari, ''Towards a Living Jordan River: An Environmental Flows Report on the Rehabilitation of the Lower Jordan River'', EcoPeace/ Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME), May 2010, retrieved 14 April 2020 ** Wadi Ziqlab *Wadi al-Yabis (biblical Chorath) ** Wadi Kafranja or Kufrinjah, passing near

Ajloun Ajloun (, ''‘Ajlūn''), also spelled Ajlun, is the capital town of the Ajloun Governorate, a hilly town in the north of Jordan, located 76 kilometers (around 47 miles) north west of Amman. It is noted for its impressive ruins of the 12th-centur ...

Zarqa River The Zarqa River (, ''Nahr az-Zarqāʾ'', lit. "the River of the Blue ity) is the second largest tributary of the lower Jordan River, after the Yarmouk River. It is the third largest river in the region by annual discharge and its watershed enc ...

(biblical Jabbok) - second largest tributary of the Jordan, flows in about halfway between the

Sea of Galilee The Sea of Galilee (, Judeo-Aramaic languages, Judeo-Aramaic: יַמּא דטבריא, גִּנֵּיסַר, ), also called Lake Tiberias, Genezareth Lake or Kinneret, is a freshwater lake in Israel. It is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth ...

and the Dead Sea *** Wadi Zulayl or Dhuleil ** Wadi Shu'ayb or Sha'eb **

Wadi al Gharabah Wadi ( ; ) is a river valley or a wet (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water only when heavy rain occurs. Wadis are located on gently sloping, nearly flat parts of deserts; commonly they begin on the distal portions of alluvial fans and ex ...

*** Wadi ar-Ramah *** Wadi al Kafrayn **** Wadi as-Seer ("Valley of the Orchards" near Amman)

Dead Sea direct affluents

Rivers and streams that flow directly into the Dead Sea are: * Wadi Zarqa Ma'in (Wadi Zarqa' Ma'in, Wadi Zarqa-Ma'in) *

Wadi Mujib The Wadi Mujib (), also known as Arnon Stream (Hebrew: נַחַל ארנון), is a river in Jordan. The river empties into the Dead Sea circa below sea level. In ancient times, the river served as the northern boundary of the kingdom of Mo ...

(biblical Arnon) ** Wadi al-Haydan ** Wadi an-Nukhaylah ** Wadi al-Hafirah * Wadi ash-Shuqayq * Wadi al-Karak *Wadi

Arabah The Arabah/Araba () or Aravah/Arava () is a loosely defined geographic area in the Negev Desert, south of the Dead Sea basin, which forms part of the border between Israel to the west and Jordan to the east. The old meaning, which was in use ...

(Wadi al-Jayb) - the valley to the south of the Dead Sea and also the southern border with Israel **

Wadi al-Hasa Wadi al-Hasa (), known from the Hebrew Bible as the valley and brook of Zered (), is a wadi in western Jordan. It is located between the Karak and Tafilah governorates. Geography The wadi is very wide and long and flows into the Dead Sea a ...

(biblical Zered) ** Wadi al-Fidan ** Wadi al-Buwayridah **Wadi Musa, passing through the same-name town and ancient

Petra Petra (; "Rock"), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu (Nabataean Aramaic, Nabataean: or , *''Raqēmō''), is an ancient city and archaeological site in southern Jordan. Famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit systems, P ...

Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba)

Streams flowing into the

Red Sea The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and th ...

Gulf of Aqaba The Gulf of Aqaba () or Gulf of Eilat () is a large gulf at the northern tip of the Red Sea, east of the Sinai Peninsula and west of the Arabian Peninsula. Its coastline is divided among four countries: Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. ...

: * Wadi Yitm **

Wadi Rum Wadi Rum ( ''Wādī Ramm'', also ''Wādī al-Ramm''), known also as the Valley of the Moon ( ''Wādī al-Qamar''), is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in southern Jordan, near the border with Saudi Arabia and about to the east of ...

Syrian Desert

Wadi Wadi ( ; ) is a river valley or a wet (ephemerality, ephemeral) Stream bed, riverbed that contains water only when heavy rain occurs. Wadis are located on gently sloping, nearly flat parts of deserts; commonly they begin on the distal portion ...

s in the Jordanian part of the

Syrian Desert The Syrian Desert ( ''Bādiyat Ash-Shām''), also known as the North Arabian Desert, the Jordanian steppe, or the Badiya, is a region of desert, semi-desert, and steppe, covering about of West Asia, including parts of northern Saudi Arabia, ea ...

: * Wadi Sirhan **Far Wadi al-Abyad **Wadi Fakk Abu Thiran **Wadi al-Fukuk **Wadi al-Hasah **Wadi al-Gharra ** Wadi Ba'ir ** Wadi al Makhruq **Wadi al Jashshah al Adlah **Wadi Rijlat **Wadi al Ghadaf **Wadi al Janab

Qa al-Jafr

A "''qa''" is a

mudflat Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats or, in Ireland, slob or slobs, are coastal wetlands that form in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers. A global analysis published in 2019 suggested that tidal ...

. *Wadi Abu Safah **Wadi al-Buraykah *Wadi Abu Tarafah *Wadi Abu 'Amud *Wadi al-Jahdaniyah *Wadi Kabid *Wadi al-'Unab

References

*Rand McNally, ''The New International Atlas'', 1993.
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