Jordan [antikvár]

Jordán covers 37,737 square miles and is bordered to the north by Syria, to the north-east by Iraq, to the south and south-west by Saudi Arabia and to the west by Israel and the Palestine National Authority. The country is divided into two distinct geographical regions: to the east is the vast desert tableland of Transjordan and to the west is Ghor, the deep tectomc depression that stretches from the western borders to the Gulf of Aqaba, taking in the jordan valley, the Dead Sea and Wadi Arabah. The immense fault-line known as the Great Rift Valley was förmed between 40 and 25 millión years ago bounded to the east by the heights of the tableland. These elevations are profoundly marked by valleys created by seasonal water courses that give life to a landscape that is as extreme as it is beautiful. The expanses of desert to the east are mterrupted by isolated rock massifs, the highest of which are Jebel ar-Rimah (4,016 feet) and Jebel al-Asfar (3,521 feet). The highlands north of Amman are dominated by the Ajlun massif (4,091 feet) but the tallest peaks in Jordan are Jebel Mubarak (5,665 feet) and Jebel Rum (5,755 feet) along the Ghor depression in the south of the country. Jordan's climate is hot and dry with little rainfall, even more so in the south and east. Much of the country is therefore arid with