Whale Valley
Wādī al-Ḥītān is a paleontological site in the Faiyum Governorate of Egypt, some 150 kilometres south-west of Cairo. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2005 for its hundreds of fossils of some of the earliest forms of whale, the archaeoceti.Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Tom Horton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whale Valley
- Type: Locality
- Description: paleontological site in the Faiyum Governorate of Egypt
- Categories: natural monument and paleontological site
- Location: Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.2738° or 29° 16' 26" northLongitude
30.0328° or 30° 1' 58" eastOpen Location Code
7GXG72FM+G4OpenStreetMap ID
node 11309770352OpenStreetMap Feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q501833Whale Valley Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: محمية وادي الحيتان
- Arabic: وادي الحيتان
- Asturian: Wadi Al-Hitan
- Azerbaijani: Hitan vadisi
- Azerbaijani: Əl-Hitan vadisi
- Basque: Wadi Al-Hitan
- Belarusian: Вадзі-аль-Хітан
- Bulgarian: Долината на китовете
- Bulgarian: Уади ал Хитан
- Catalan: Jaciment de Wadi al-Hitan
- Catalan: Vall de les Balenes
- Catalan: Wadi al-Hitan
- Cebuano: Wadi Al-Hitan
- Chinese: 鯨魚谷
- Chinese: 鲸鱼峡谷
- Chinese: 鲸鱼谷
- Croatian: Dolina kitova
- Croatian: Wadi Al-Hitan
- Czech: Al-Hitan
- Danish: Wadi Al-Hitan
- Danish: Wadi Al-Hitan Whale dalen
- Dutch: Wadi Al-Hitan
- Egyptian Arabic: وادى الحيتان
- English: Wadi Al-Hitan
- English: Wadi al Hitan
- Finnish: Wadi Al-Hitan
- French: Ouadi Al-Hitan
- French: Vallée des baleines
- French: Wadi al-hitan
- Galician: Wadi Al-Hitan
- Georgian: ვადი-ალ-ხიტანი
- Georgian: ვადი ალ ხიტანი
- German: Tal der Wale
- German: Wadi Hitan
- German: Wadi Zeuglodon
- German: Wadi al-Hitan
- German: Walfischtal
- Greek: Wadi Al-Hitan
- Greek: Κοιλάδα των Φαλαινών
- Greek: Ουάντι Αλ Χιτάν
- Hebrew: ואדי אל-חיתאן
- Hebrew: ואדי אל חיתאן
- Hindi: वादी अल-हितान
- Hungarian: Vádi al-Hitan
- Italian: Valle delle balene
- Italian: Wadi al-Hitan
- Japanese: クジラ渓谷
- Japanese: ワディ・アル・ヒタン
- Lithuanian: Banginių slėnis
- Lithuanian: Vadi al Hitanas
- Malayalam: വാദി അൽ ഹിതാൻ
- Maltese: Wadi Al-Hitan
- Nepali: वादी अल-हितान
- Norwegian: Wadi Al-Hitan
- Norwegian Bokmål: Wadi Al-Hitan
- Persian: وادی الحیتان
- Polish: Dolina Wielorybów
- Polish: Wadi al-Hitan
- Portuguese: Uádi Hitã
- Portuguese: Wadi Al-Hitan
- Russian: Вади-аль-Хитан
- Serbian: Долина китова
- Serbo-Croatian: Dolina kitova
- Slovak: Wádí al-Hítán
- Spanish: Valle de las ballenas
- Spanish: Wadi Al-Hitan
- Spanish: Wadi Al Hitan
- Swedish: Wadi Al-Hitan
- Turkish: Vadi'l-Hitan
- Ukrainian: Ваді-аль-Хітан
- Vietnamese: Wadi El Hitan
Other Places Named Whale Valley
Localities in the Area
- Wadi El MalhLocality, 13 km south
- Dur GahannamLocality, 13 km southwest
- Wadi El Rayyan BasinLocality, 17 km southeast
- Qarat Qosour El ArabLocality, 21 km southeast
- Al 'Ama'imLocality, 23 km south
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Whale Valley. Photo: Tom Horton, CC BY-SA 2.0.