The Homs Gap (Arabic: فتحة حمص) (also called the Akkar Gap and known in Arabic as al-Buqay'a) is a relatively flat passage in the Orontes River Valley of southern Syria.

The small Nahr al-Kabir river runs down the Gap to the Syrian coast into the Mediterranean Sea at Arida.

[2] For hundreds of years, traders and invaders have found the Homs Gap an important route from the coast to the country's interior and to other parts of Asia because it "provides the easiest access between the Mediterranean coast and the Syrian interior.

"[3] The gap is also the only large crossing open year-round across the mountain ranges.

[2] Today, the highway and railroad in Homs to the Lebanese port of Tripoli run through the gap.