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Lebanon's Rivers And Lakes
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The Litani River - Leontes, an important water resource in southern Lebanon. The river rises in the abundant Beqaa Valley, west of Baalbek, and empties into the Mediterranean Sea north of Tyre. The Litani River has the length of 140 km, it's the longest river in Lebanon and provides an average flow estimated at 920 million cubic meters per year. The waters of the Litani both start and flow entirely within the borders of Lebanon. It provides a major source for water supply, irrigation and hydroelectricity within southern Lebanon, in the whole country as well.
The Hasbani River, people also known as Sinr Stream within Israel, is small stream of the Jordan river. It runs for 25 miles in Lebanon before crossing the border, joining with the Banias and Dan Rivers at north of Israel, and formed the Jordan River. The river also created a border between Lebanon and the Golan Heights, and it's about four kilometers downstream of Ghajar.
- Nahr al-kalb, which literally means Dog river, runs for 19 miles (31 km) from a spring in Jeita near the Jeita Grotto to the Mediterranean Sea.
Lebanon is a country with lots of hydro graphic resources. It has fifteen major rivers, but they are all non navigable. Most of the streams are perennial, also rivers have really fast movement and they cause erosion.
Litani
Dog River
- In its mouth we can find inscriptions commemorating victories made by armies, emperors and conquerors that passed through.
Lebanon's Rivers And Lakes
Yammoune
Hasbani
Ramses II
Lake Yammoune, nature reserve with village and it's located 27 kilometres (17 mi) northwest of Baalbek.
Orontes
Qaraoun
- Qaraoun is an artificial lake that was made mainly for hydropower generation and irrigation in 1959.
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- The Orontes (Nahr al-Assi) is a river that run through Lebanon, Syria and Turkey three countries. It has the length of 571 km plus 23,000 km² of watershed, also rises at the Beqaa Valley.