[citation needed] The wadi area is intensely used by farmers who use the water for irrigation, mostly for vegetables like tomatoes and melons.
[5] The route spans about 30 kilometres (19 mi), and is a popular destination for adventure tourists in Jordan for walkers and hikers.
A group of hiking clubs have been organized, most of which end at the Jordan Valley, where there are many mineral hot springs, which are said to have many health benefits[by whom?].
It is mentioned briefly in Deuteronomy 2:13–14 and more extensively in Numbers 21:12–13, as the place where the Israelites camp on their final approach to Moab.
From the context it is understood that it lay in Edom, south of the border to Moab which is marked by the River Arnon, modern Wadi Mujib.
Coinman suggested in 1996 that both bone and blade technologies were more common in this period than previously thought[8] (see Levantine Upper and Epi-Palaeolithic) The Nabataean temple at Khirbet et-Tannur stands on a mountaintop at the confluence of a tributary, Wadi La'ban, and Wadi Hasa.