Wadi al-Batʼha

Wadi al-Batʼha (Arabic: وادي البطحاء, lit. 'the wide valley'), historically known as Wadi al-Wutar (Arabic: وادي الوتر),[1][2][3] is an ancient river valley[4] under rehabilitation in the Najd region of Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia. The valley once descended from Shiʿb Abu Rufia,[5] and traversed from northwest to south, cutting through town of Riyadh before meeting Wadi Hanifa in the southwest.[6] The remnants of the valley today originate and end in the al-Masani neighborhood and has a length of almost 6.5 km, with the stream draining into Wadi Hanifa as per its previous river mouth.[7][8][9] The al-Batʼha Street in downtown Riyadh, which runs parallel to the now-dried up stream of the wadi, is named after the valley.[10][11]

Wadi al-Batʼha/al-Wutar
Native name
Location
CountrySaudi Arabia
Physical characteristics
SourceShiʿb Abu Rufia (previously)
al-Masani (present-day)
 • locationsouth of al-Masani, Riyadh
MouthWadi Hanifa
 • location
Al-Masani, Riyadh
 • coordinates
24.52721°N 46.76290°E / 24.52721; 46.76290

References
  1. Riyadh, the City of the Future. Arab Urban Development Institute. 1984.
  2. Scoville, Sheila A. (1979). Gazetteer of Arabia: A Geographical and Tribal History of the Arabian Peninsula. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt. ISBN 978-3-201-01090-0.
  3. al-Ādāb, Jāmiʻat al-Riyāḍ Kullīyat (1970). Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts (in Arabic). Jamiat al-Riyaḍ, Kulliyat al-Adab.
  4. Sulaymān, Khālid ibn Aḥmad (1983). معجم مدينة الرياض (in Arabic). الجمعية العربية السعودية للثقافة والفنون، ادارة الثقافة،.
  5. "شعيب أبو رُفيع: الوادي الحاضر الغائب وسط مدينة الرياض". www.al-jazirah.com. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  6. "الرياض قلب الجزيرة العربية ساحة الصفاه كانت تشكل المنطقة المركز للمدينة خمس مراحل من التطور العمراني والسكاني شهدتها الرياض بلجريف رسم أول خارطة كروكية للرياض في القرن التاسع عشر". www.al-jazirah.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 2023-01-25.
  7. النواف, الرياض: فارس (2013-12-02). "الرياض.. تأهيل وادي البطحاء لدرء مخاطر السيول وتنظيفه من "الملوثات"". Watanksa (in Arabic). Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  8. "تطوير الرياض تطلق المرحلة الثانية من مشروع تطوير وادي البطحاء". صحيفة صدى الالكترونية (in Arabic). Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  9. Khamīs, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Ibn (1978). Muʻjam al-Yamāmah (in Arabic).
  10. Facey, William (1992). Riyadh, the Old City: From Its Origins Until the 1950s. IMMEL. ISBN 978-0-907151-32-6.
  11. اليمامة (in Arabic). al-Mamlakah al-ʻArabīyah al-Saʻūdīyah, Muʼassasat al-Yamāmah al-Ṣuḥufīyah. November 2010.
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