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The upper reaches of the wadi are dangerous but popular with hikers, with a number of rescues in the area made annually by Ras Al
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The wadi was long an agriculturally rich area, home to hundreds of fields in its upper reaches. It has been dammed with a 22 metre high and 257 metre wide dam with a capacity of some 1 million cubic metres, as part of a $ 44.1 million package of infrastructural developments announced in
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boundary dating back 200 million years. Associated with a period of mass extinction, the end of the
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An area of outstanding natural beauty and a popular hiking destination, the wadi cuts into the Yanas
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