List of wadis of the United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates does not have any permanent rivers, but does have wadis, a permanently or intermittently dry riverbed. This is a list of wadis in United Arab Emirates arranged alphabetically.

A

• Wadi Abadilah, in Fujairah ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
• Wadi Afiya, in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [7]}
• Wadi Ajali / Wādī ‘Ajalī, (tributary of Wadi Al Fay), in Fujairah. ^{[8] [9]}
• Wadi Arar / Wadi Ar'ar, (tributary of Wādī ‘Asimah), in Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah
• Wadi Arus / Wādī ‘Arūs, (tributary of Wādī Shāh), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [10]}
• Wadi Ashwani / Wādī ‘Ashwānī / Wādī Al ‘Ishwānī (tributary of Wadi Sifuni / Wadi Sifni), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[a] [1] [4] [11] [12] [13]}
• Wadi Asimah / Wādī ‘Asimah (tributary of Wādī Sidr), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[1] [11] [14]}
• Wadi Atmar (tributary of Wadi Bih), in Ras Al Khaimah
• Wadi Awsaq / Wadi Awsaq / Wādī Awsāq (tributary of Wadi Tawiyean), in Fujairah ^{[8] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]}
• Wadi Al Aym / Wādī ‘Ayīm, in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[8] [11] [20]}

B

• Wadi Bakhit, in Ras Al Khaimah ^[21]
• Wadi Baqal (tributary of Wadi Nahela), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[6]
• Wadi Baqarah (tributary of Wadi Sifuni / Wadi Sifni), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[1] [12] [22] [23]}
• Wadi Barid / Wādī Bārid (tributary of Wadi Al Munay / Wadi Munay`i), in Ras Al Khaimah <sup>[22] [24] [25] [26]</sup>
• Wadi Barut / Wādī Barut (tributary of Wadi Ghalilah), in Ras Al Khaimah <sup>[6] [11] [27]</sup>
• Wadi Bih / Wādī Al-Bayḥ / Wādī al Bīḩ, in Ras Al Khaimah, and Oman <sup>[6] [15] [28] [29] [30]</sup>
• Wadi Bu Faraj / Wādī Bū Faraj (tributary of Wadi Qor), in Ras Al Khaimah <sup>[11] [24] [31]</sup>
• Wadi Bu Harman / Wādī Bū Ḥarmān (tributary of Wadi Al Munay / Wadi Munay`i), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[11]

D

• Wadi Daftah / Wadi Deftah / Wadi Diftah, (tributary of Wadi Ham), in Ras Al Khaimah. ^{[11] [12] [32] [33]}
• Wadi Danhah / Wādī Z̧anḩah / Wadi Dhanhah, (tributary of Wadi Al Fay), in Fujairah. ^{[8] [34]}

E

• Wadi Ejili / Wadi Al Ejili / Wādī Al 'Ijēlī / Wadi Ayaili, in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[11] [22] [25]}
• Wadi Esfai / Wadi Sfai / Wadi Isfai, (tributary of Wadi Sifuni / Wadi Sfuni / Wadi Sifni), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[35]

F

• Wadi Faqara / Wādī Faqarah, in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [36]}
• Wadi Fara / Wādī al Fara‘ / Wādī Al Far, in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[8] [11] [22] [37]}
• Wadi Farfar / Wādī Furfār, in Fujairah. ^{[12] [16] [22] [38]}
• Wadi Al Fay / Wādī Al Fay’, in Fujairah. ^{[8] [11] [22] [39]}

G

• Wadi Ghabas / Wādī Ghabas (tributary of Wadi Bih), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [11] [28] [40]}
• Wadi Al Gabbah / Wādī Al Gabbah (tributary of Wadi Sha'am), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[11]
• Wadi Al Ghafiyyah, in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [11] [41]}
• Wadi Ghalan (tributary of Wadi Yushemah / Wadi Ghushaymah / Wadi Ghashemah), in Fujairah ^{[8] [42] [43]}
• Wadi Ghalfa / Wadi Gulfa (tributary of Wadi Hadf), in Ajman ^{[24] [44]}
• Wadi Ghalilah / Wādī Ghalīlah, in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [11] [45] [46]}
• Wadi Ghayl / Wādī Ghayl (tributary of Wadi Qada'ah), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[6]
• Wadi Ghayl / Wādī Ghayl (tributary of Wadi Wurayah), in Fujairah ^{[8] [42] [47]}
• Wadi Ghulayyil Khun (tributary of Wadi Wurayah), in Fujairah ^{[8] [42] [48]}

H

• Wadi Hadf / Wadi Hadaf / Wādī Ḩadf (tributary of Wadi Hatta), in Ajman, Dubai and Oman ^{[24] [49] [50]}
• Wadi Halhal / Wādī Ḩalḩal (tributary of Wadi Ghalilah), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[2] [6] [11] [22] [40] [51]}
• Wadi Halu / Wādī Halū / Wadi Khalu (tributary of Wadi Naqab), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [22] [52] [53] [54]}
• Wadi Ham / Wādī Hām, in Fujairah ^{[1] [4] [12] [11] [16] [29] [55] [56] [57]}
• Wadi Haqil / Wādī Ḩaqīl, in Ras Al Khaimah ^[58]
• Wadi Hatta / Wādī Ḩattā, in Dubai and Oman ^{[24] [59] [60] [61]}
• Wadi Al Hawari, in Ras Al Khaimah ^[11]
• Wadi Al Hayilah / Wadi Hiyaila / Wadi Hiyailah (tributary of Wadi al Bih), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[11] [62] [63]}
• Wadi Hayl / Wādī Ḩayl / Wādī Al Ḩēl, in Fujairah. ^{[11] [12] [64]}
• Wadi Helo / Wādī Al Ḥilū / Wadi Hilu, in Sharjah, Fujairah and Oman ^{[1] [22] [24] [25] [29] [65]}
• Wadi Al Himriyyah (tributary of Wadi Mu'taridah / Wadi Mutarid) in Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah ^[11]
• Wadi Al Hiyar / Wādī Hiyār (tributary of Wadi Khabb and sub-tributary of Wadi Tawiyean), in Fujairah ^{[8] [11] [17] [66]}
• Wadi Hubayb / Wādī Hubayb (tributary of Wadi Qor), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[24] [67]}
• Wadi Al Huwaybit / Wādī al Ḩuwaybīţ / Wādī Liḩwе̄biţ, in Fujairah ^{[8] [11] [68]}

J

• Wadi Al Jazeer / Wadi al Yazir, in Ajman and Oman ^[44]
• Wadi Jib / Wādī Jib (tributary of Wadi Shah), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [22] [69]}

K

• Wadi Kadra, in Ras Al Khaimah.
• Wadi Khabb / Wādī Khabb (tributary of Wadi Ghalilah), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [70]}
• Wadi Khabb / Wādī Khabb (tributary of Wadi Tawiyean), in Fujairah ^{[8] [11] [16] [18] [22] [71]}
• Wadi Al Kharas / Wadi Likhras / Wādī Likhras (tributary of Wadi Khabb and sub-tributary of Wadi Tawiyean), in Fujairah ^{[8] [11] [72] [73]}
• Wadi Al Khari / Wādī al Khārī (tributary of Wadi Shawka), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[74]
• Wadi Al Kharus, in Ajman and Oman ^{[44] [75]}
• Wadi Al Khiway / Wādī Al Khiway (tributary of Wadi Khabb), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[11]
• Wadi Al Khulaiban / Wadi Al Khileban (tributary of Wadi Hadf), in Ajman ^[44]
• Wadi Al Khurush / Wādī Al Khurūsh (tributary of Wadi Tawiyean), in Fujairah ^{[16] [8] [76]}
• Wādī Kirībā|Wadi Kiriba / Wādī Kirībā, in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [77]}
• Wadi Kub (tributary of Wadi Mu'taridah / Wadi Mutarid) in Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah ^{[11] [40] [8] [78]}

L

• Wadi Laim / Wādī Līm (tributary of Wadi Hadf and sub-tributary of Wadi Hatta), in Ajman and Dubai ^{[11] [24]}
• Wadi Lamhah / Wādī Limḥah, in Emirate of Umm Al Quwain. ^{[11] [79]}
• Wadi Lil / Wādī Līl (tributary of Wadi Kub), in Fujairah ^[11]
• Wadi Limarit / Wādī Limarit (tributary of Wadi Ham), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[80]
• Wadi Lishan / Wādī Lishan (tributary of Wadi Hadf), in Ajman ^{[24] [81]}
• Wadi Litibah / Wādī Litibah (tributary of Wadi Ghalilah), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [82]}

M

• Wadi Madha / Wadi Madhah / Wādī Maḩḑah, in Oman and Sharjah and Fujairah ^{[1] [11] [22] [12] [83] [84]}
• Wadi Madnan / Wādī Madnan (tributary of Wadi Naqab), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [15] [11] [85] [86]}
• Wadi Malahah, in Ras Al Khaimah ^[11]
• Wadi Mamduh / Wādī Mamdūḩ (tributary of Wadi Sifuni / Wadi Sifni), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[22] [12] [87]}
• Wadi Al Maryalen / Wādī Al Maryalе̄n (tributary of Wadi Sha'am), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[11]
• Wadi Maydaq / Wādī Maydaq / Wādī Mе̄daq, in Fujairah ^{[11] [22] [8] [88]}
• Wadi May / Wādī Mayy / Wadi Mai / Wādī May (tributary of Wadi Rumh / Wadi Rumht), in Fujairah ^{[11] [1] [44]}
• Wadi Mayy / Wādī Mayy (tributary of Wadi Shah), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [89]}
• Wadi Mayya / Wādī Al Mayyah (tributary of Wadi Awsaq, in Fujairah ^{[11] [17]}
• Wadi Al Midhnab / Wadi Madnah / Wādī Madnah (tributary of Wadi Bih), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[11] [90]}
• Wadi Al Mikhebi / Wādī Al Mikhе̄bī (tributary of Wadi Bih), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[11]
• Wadi Milah / Wādī Milāḩ (tributary of Wadi Qor), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[24] [25] [91]}
• Wadi Modaynah in Ras Al Khaimah
• Wadi Mudayq / Wādī Muḑayq / Wādī Al Madīq / Wadi Mutheiq, in Sharjah and Fujairah (tributary of Wadi Helo) ^{[11] [25] [92]}
• Wadi Wadi Muhayli / Wādī Muhaylī (tributary of Wadi Naqab), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[93]
• Wadi Al Munay / Wadi Munay`i / Wadi Munay (tributary of Wadi Qor / Wādī al Qūr), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[22] [24] [25] [40] [79] [94]}
• Wadi Murtaqam / Wadi Murtaqau (tributary of Wadi Wurayah), in Fujairah ^{[8] [42] [95]}
• Wadi Al Mustab / Wadi Al Mestib (tributary of Wadi Hadf), in Ajman ^[44]
• Wadi Mu'taridah / Wadi Mutarid / Wadi Al Mithaddim, in Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah ^{[11] [8] [22] [45] [96]}

N

• Wadi Nahela / Wādī Ghēl / Wadi Ghil, in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[11] [28] [97]}
• Wadi Naqab / Wādī Naqab, in Ras Al Khaimah and Oman ^{[6] [11] [15] [28] [98] [99]}
• Wadi Naqat (tributary of Wadi Shah), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [100] [101]}
• Wadi Nikid / Wādī Nikid / Wadi Naqid (tributary of Wadi Al Kharas and sub-tributary of Wadi Khabb), in Fujairah ^[11]

Q

• Wadi Qada'ah / Wādī Kidā'ah (tributary of Wadi Bih), in Ras Al Khaimah, and Oman ^{[6] [11] [15] [102]}
• Wadi Qaf'ah / Wādī Qaf'ah (tributary of Wadi Sha'am), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[11]
• Wadi Qimah / Wādī Qimah (tributary of Wadi Hatta), in Dubai ^{[24] [103]}
• Wadi Qor / Wādī al Qūr / Wadi al-Qawr, in Ras Al Khaimah and Oman ^{[11] [40] [24] [25] [104] [105] [106]}

R

• Wadi Ra'alat Ad Daman (tributary of Wadi Ghabas), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[11]
• Wadi Rahabah / Wādī Raḩbah, in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [11] [21] [28] [107]}
• Wadi Ar Ra'ilah (tributary of Wadi Bih), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[11]
• Wadi Ar Ribiyyah / Wadi Raibiya / Wadi Ar Rebiyyah, in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [11] [22] [108]}
• Wadi Riyamah / Wādī Riyāmah / Wadi Riyama (tributary of Wadi Sayraq and sub-tributary of Wadi Tawiyean) ^{[8] [18] [109]}
• Wadi Rumht / Wādī Rumḩ / Wadi Ramth, in Fujairah ^{[12] [44]}

S

• Wadi Sadakh / Wādī Sidakh / Wādī Sadakh (tributary of Wadi Awsaq and sub-tributary of Wadi Tawiyean), in Fujairah ^{[8] [11] [17]}
• Wadi Safad / Wādī Şafad, in Fujairah ^{[11] [45] [12] [110] [49] [111]}
• Wadi Safat / Wādī Suftah (tributary of Wadi Kub), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[8] [11]}
• Wadi Saham in Fujairah ^{[112] [113]}
• Wadi Sal (tributary of Wadi Halu, and sub-tributary of Wadi Naqab), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [114]}
• Wadi Sal Dhayah (Next to the village and farming area of Sal Dhayah, at the foot of Jabal Rams), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[11] [100] [115]}
• Wadi Salmadan (tributary of Wadi Al Kharas and sub-tributary of Wadi Khabb), in Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah
• Wadi Samarat (tributary of Wadi Madnan), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[6]
• Wadi Sawabi (tributary of Wadi Khabb and sub-tributary of Wadi Tawiyean), in Fujairah ^[17]
• Wadi Sawamia (tributary of Wadi Scharab), in Ajman and Oman ^{[24] [75]}
• Wadi Saybitalma / Wādī Saybitalmā (tributary of Wadi Ashwani ), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[12] [116]}
• Wadi Sayraq / Wādī Sayraq (tributary of Wadi Tawiyean), in Fujairah ^{[8] [18] [117]}
• Wadi Sena / Wadi Sinnah / Wādī Sanah, in Fujairah ^{[8] [11] [118]}
• Wadi Sha'am / Wādī ash Sha‘m / Wādī Shaam, in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[11] [15] [40] [45] [119]}
• Wadi Shah / Wādī Shāh (tributary of Wadi Bih), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [28] [120]}
• Wadi Shakh / Wādī Shakh (tributary of Wadi Khabb and sub-tributary of Wadi Tawiyean), in Fujairah ^{[8] [15] [17] [121]}
• Wadi Sharm / Wādī Sharm / Ghalīlat Da‘‘ān, in Fujairah ^{[11] [8] [97] [122]}
• Wadi Ash Sharyah / Wādī Ash Sharyah / Wadi Al Sheria (tributary of Wadi Khabb and sub-tributary of Wadi Tawiyean), in Fujairah ^[11]
• Wadi Shawka / Wādī Shokah / Wādī Shawkah, in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[11] [35] [45] [123]}
• Wadi Shie / Wādī Shī in Khor Fakkan, Sharjah ^{[1] [45] [124]}
• Wadi Shis / Wādī Ash Shīş / Wadi Shees (tributary of Wadi Madha), in Sharjah and Oman. ^{[1] [8] [83] [35] [125]}
• Wadi Shisah / Wādī Shīşah (tributary of Wādī Shāh), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[6] [126]}
• Wadi Shuway / Wādī Shuway (tributary of Wadi Ham), in Fujairah ^[127]
• Wadi Sidr / Wādī Sidr in Fujairah ^{[8] [128] [129]}
• Wadi Sifuni / Wadi Sifuni / Wadi Sifuni / Wadi Sfuni / Wadi Sifni, in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[12] [45] [130]}
• Wadi Siji / Wādī Sījī, in Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah ^{[1] [12] [11] [131]}

T

• Wadi Tarabat / Wādī Tarabat near Al Ain in Abu Dhabi, ^[132]
• Wadi Tawiyean / Wadi Al Tawiyaen / Wādī Ţawīyayn, in Fujairah ^{[8] [11] [16] [133]}
• Wadi Tayyibah in Fujairah
• Wadi Thayb / Wādī Thayb / Wadi Theeb, tributary of Wadi Safad, in Fujairah ^{[12] [134]}
• Wadi Thouban / Wadi Toban / Wādī Thawbān, in Fujairah ^{[12] [135]}
• Wadi Tuwa / Wadi Tawa / Wādī Tawāh (tributary of Wadi Al Munay / Wadi Munay`i), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[24] [136]}

U

• Wadi Umm al Ghat / Wādī Umm al Ghāt (tributary of Wadi Qor), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[24] [137]}
• Wadi Ushail / Wādī Ushayl (tributary of Wadi Qor), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[11] [24] [138]}

W

• Wadi Wa‘bayn / Wādī Wa‘bayn / Wadi Wa'abain (tributary of Wadi Khabb and sub-tributary of Wadi Tawiyean), in Fujairah ^{[8] [17] [139]}
• Wadi Wamm / Wādī Wamm / Wādī Wam, in Fujairah. ^{[8] [11] [140]}
• Wadi Wayqah / Wādī Wayqah (tributary of Wadi Siji), in Fujairah ^[141]
• Wadi Wurayah / Wādī Wurayyah, in Fujairah ^{[1] [29] [42] [142] [143] [144] [145]}

Y

• Wadi Yabsah / Wadi Jabsah, tributary of Wadi Ham, in Fujairah. ^{[11] [12] [110] [146]}
• Ghalil Al Yafar, (tributary of Wadi Jib), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[11]
• Wadi Yushemah / Wadi Ghushaymah / Wadi Ghashemah / Wādī Al Yishе̄mah (tributary of Wadi Wurayah), in Fujairah ^{[11] [8] [42] [147]}

Z

• Wadi Zibat / Wādī Zaybāt, (tributary of Wadi Bih), in Ras Al Khaimah and Oman ^{[15] [148]}
• Wadi Zikt / Wādī Zikt, in Fujairah ^{[1] [8] [29] [15] [45] [149]}
• Wadi Zuqaybah / Wādī As Siqе̄bah (tributary of Wadi Asimah), in Ras Al Khaimah ^{[11] [150]}
• Wadi Zireb (tributary of Wadi Rahabah), in Ras Al Khaimah ^[11]

See also

• List of countries without rivers
• List of wadis of Oman
• List of mountains in the United Arab Emirates
• List of mountains in Oman

Notes

1. Riverbed partially destroyed by the activity of large quarries.

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