Yarmuk River

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Yarmuk Wadi. Unlike the Arnon, Jabbok, and Zered, this stream is not mentioned at all in the Bible. Its Greek name was 'Hieromyces'and the Talmudic Hebrew name 'Yarmok.' The Yarmuk River and its streams irrigate the whole region, and the villages reaped abundant harvests of grain. The dews are heavy and the heat is tropical. The fruits of the Jordan and of the Yarmuk were famous around Mediterranean.

The river  is 50 miles long, rising near the Jordan-Syria border and flowing generally W to the Jordan River, S of the Sea of Galilee. It is one of the region's larger rivers and is used primarily for irrigation today. The East Ghor Canal branches from the Yarmuk to irrigate the E Ghor region of the Jordan valley.

The remains of ancient aqueducts are still visible.