Abraham River

Abraham River
Location
Towns and villages	Aaqoura, Adonis, Afqa, Ghabat, Yanouh, Qartaba, Janne, Maaysra, Nahr Ibrahim
Physical characteristics
Source	Mount Lebanon
Mouth	Mediterranean Sea
• location	Nahr Ibrahim
Discharge
• location	Mediterranean Sea from Nahr Ibrahim
• average	16,1 m³/s
Basin features
Bridges	1 (Highway M51)

The Nahr Ibrahim (Arabic: نَهر إبراهيم; Abraham River) also known as Adonis River (نَهر أَدونيس), is a small river in the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon, with a length of about 23 km. The river emerges from two sources: The Roueiss grotto in Aaqoura that provides two thirds the flow of the Nahr Ibrahim and from a huge cavern, the Afqa Grotto, that provides a third of the flow, nearly 1.5 km above sea level before it drops steeply through a series of falls and passes through a sheer gorge through the mountains.^[1] It passes through the town of Nahr Ibrahim before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea. The city takes its name from the river (nahr means river in Arabic).