Nahal Paran

The origin of the river is in the Paran Desert of the Sinai Peninsula, and it flows into the estuary of Nahal HaArava.

This is the drainage basin's largest river, with an area of thousands of square kilometers, creating broad planes that separate the Negev's high north and the Eilat mountains of the south.

The stream had the highest recorded flow in Israel of 1,150 cubic meters per second on 6 November 1970.

In 2014, the record was broken by a flow of 1,280 cubic meters per second measured at Zin.

For comparison, the average flow in the Jordan River is 16 cubic meters per second.