Wikipedia's first sentence called it “occasionally dry riverbed in israel 's negev desert and egypt 's sinai peninsula”. Today it says “seasonal stream in egypt 's sinai peninsula and israel 's negev desert”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Occasionally dry riverbed in the Negev Desert and the Sinai Peninsula”. It now reads “Seasonal stream in the Negev Desert”.
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Occasionally dry riverbed in the Negev Desert and the Sinai Peninsula Nahal Paran Nahal Paran Estuary aerial photo Nahal Paran ( ) is an occasionally dry riverbed in Israel 's Negev Desert and Egypt 's Sinai Peninsula .1With a length of 150 kilometers, this is the third largest river in Israel after the Jordan River and Yarmouk River .2It is also the widest river in Israel.3The origin of the river is in the Paran Desert of the Sinai Peninsula, and it flows into the estuary of Nahal HaArava . Water flow exists only during flash floods. This is the drainage basin's largest river, with an area of thousands of square kilometers, creating broad planes that separate the Negev's high north and the Eilat mountains of the south. In the past, during floods, like other major rivers in the Negev, Nahal paran would flood the Arava Road (the main road to Eilat ), until the construction of a bridge over the river. The stream had the highest recorded flow in Israel of 1,150 cubic meters per second on 6 November 1970. In 2014, it broke this record was broken by a flow of 1,280 cubic meters per second measured at Zin. Ground water near the riverbed provides drinking water for communities in the Arava desert . This water has high salinity and goes through desalination . 30°20′00″N 34°58′07″E  /  30.3333°N 34.9686°E  / 30.3333; 34.9686 Wohl, Ellen E.; Greenbaum, Noam; Schick, Ascher P.; Baker, Victor R.4
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Occasionally dry riverbed in the Negev Desert and the Sinai Peninsula Nahal Paran Nahal Paran Estuary aerial photo Nahal Paran ( ) is a seasonal stream in Egypt 's Sinai Peninsula and Israel 's Negev Desert .With a length of 150 kilometers, it is the third largest watercourse in Israel after the Jordan River and Yarmouk River .It is also the widest watercourse in Israel.The association of the name "Paran Stream" with this specific wadi is a modern one.Israeli authorities have introduced the name "Paran Stream" by adopting it from the Paran Desert mentioned in the Hebrew Bible .However, the modern identification of the biblical Paran Desert with a specific part of the Sinai Peninsula might or might not be accurate.
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Seasonal stream in the Negev Desert Nahal Paran Nahal Paran Estuary aerial photo Nahal Paran ( Hebrew : נחל פארן , lit. ' Paran Stream ' ) is a seasonal stream in Egypt 's Sinai Peninsula and Israel 's Negev Desert . With a length of 150 kilometers, it is the third largest watercourse in Israel after the Jordan River and Yarmouk River . It is also the widest watercourse in Israel.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “occasionally dry riverbed in israel 's negev desert and egypt 's sinai peninsula”. Today it says “seasonal stream in egypt 's sinai peninsula and israel 's negev desert”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Occasionally dry riverbed in the Negev Desert and the Sinai Peninsula”. It now reads “Seasonal stream in the Negev Desert”. Read the current article and compare.
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occasionally dry riverbed in israel 's negev desert and egypt 's sinai peninsula
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seasonal stream in egypt 's sinai peninsula and israel 's negev desert
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