Nahal Amud

Amud
Amud
	Nahal Amud
Native name	נחל עמוד‎ (Hebrew); نهر عامود (Arabic);
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Near Kadita, Israel
• coordinates	33°0′46.57″N 35°28′2.87″E / 33.0129361°N 35.4674639°E
• elevation	816 m (2,677 ft)
Mouth	Sea of Galilee
• location	Ginosar, Israel
• coordinates	32°51′11.98″N 35°31′56.9″E / 32.8533278°N 35.532472°E
• elevation	−209 m (−686 ft)
Length	24.9 km (15.5 mi)

Nahal Amud (Template:Lang-he), also known as the Wadi al-Amud, is a stream in the Upper Galilee region of Israel that flows into the Sea of Galilee.

History

The source of the stream, Ramat Dalton, is located 800 meters above sea level. Its drainage basin includes the peaks of Mount Canaan (955 meters) and Mount Meron (1,204 meters) and flows south through eastern Galilee to the northwest part of the Sea of Galilee – a height of less than 200 meters below sea level.

The stream is named after a pillar that rises high above ground and is located near a channel of the stream near Kibbutz Hukok. The gorge that forms the channel at this point holds many caves once inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis and later by Neanderthal Man such as the cave at Zuttiyeh and the Amud cave. They were the object of the first paleoanthropological excavations in Mandatory Palestine in 1925–1926.^[1] The caves contained hominin remains as well as Mousterian and Acheulean artifacts.

Most of Nahal Amud (8923 dunams) was declared a nature reserve in 1972.^[2]

Gallery

Looking north from Nahal Amud lookout
Looking south from Nahal Amud lookout
Water flows from the open Canal of the National Water Carrier of Israel into the inverted siphon in Nahal Amud and to the open canal on the other side
The inverted siphon in Nahal Amud