Qada'ah (Arabic: ديرة الكداءة‎, romanized: Kidā'ah)[1] is a small agricultural and livestock village, located in the northeast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in the Hajar Mountains, Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, at an approximate altitude of 870 m (2,850 ft), and just over a kilometer from the border with the neighboring Sultanate of Oman.

The village has about 20 houses, some of them rebuilt and renovated following a traditional style; embankments and terraces supported by dry stone walls, without mortar, which allow water and soil to be retained, intended for cereal planting and other agricultural uses; pipes to collect runoff water; cisterns; sheepfolds; barns and other buildings.

While the position and course of the Wadi Qada'ah are relatively well defined on historical maps, especially that published by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense in 1971,[3] the exact location of the village of Qada 'ah is not sufficiently specified, neither in the main geographical databases, nor in the maps drawn by hand, between 1950 and 1960, by the British Arabist, cartographer, military officer and diplomat Julian F. Walker,[4] during the work carried out for the establishment of borders between the then called Trucial States, nor in other maps published at the same time.

[1] The difficulties that may have arisen in the past for cartographers in determining the exact position of the town are perfectly understandable, since Qada'ah is located at the head of the wadi, in an area that is difficult to access.

However, in the maps prepared between 1986 and 1991 by the Military Survey, Abu Dhabi, which were used in 1993 for the publication of "The national atlas of the United Arab Emirates",[1] the coordinates of the village of Qada'ah were established at the position 25°45′N, 56°08′E, and its name was recorded with the spelling Kidā'ah, which corresponds to the way it is pronounced, according to its native inhabitants.