On our trip starting in Lebanon along the Bekaa Valley to Syria and his beatuful town like Aleppo and the antique place like Palmyra we went south to the impressive deserts of Jordan finnaly reaching Petra.
(A closer view to the water reservoir surrounded by the monumental mountains in the WS)
The Mujib-Valley with its dam is located about 100 km south of Amman.
Built: 1999 - 2003, 12th April 2004 inaugurated by the King of Jordan Abdullah II.
Heigth: 67
Length 764 m
Structural Type: Gravity dam
Damfill volume 1 800 000 m3