Banias River
The Banias is a river flowing from the Golan Heights to Israel. It is the easternmost of the three main northern tributaries of the Jordan River; together with the Dan River and the Hasbani River, it forms the Jordan River's upper catchment.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river
- Also known as: “Banvasi”, “Banyas”, “Banyas River”, “Hermon River”, “Nahal Banias”, “Nahal Banyas”, “Nahal Hermon”, “Nahr Banias”, “Nahr Bāniyās”, and “Nahr el Bānyāsī”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Horshat Tal and Hagoshrim Hotel and Nature.
Horshat Tal
Campsite
Photo: יונץ, Public domain.
Hurshat Tal is a national park and nature reserve in the Northern District of Israel. In 1968, 765 dunams were declared national park lands and 107 dunams were declared a nature reserve.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include HaGoshrim and Dafna.
HaGoshrim
Village
HaGoshrim is a kibbutz in the Galilee Panhandle in northern Israel, 5 km east of Kiryat Shmona. The kibbutz is adjacent to the Hurshat Tal National Park and bisected by tributaries of the Jordan River, the Snir, Koren, itself a tributary of the Dan and Tal.
Dafna
Village
Photo: LittleGun, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dafna is a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. Located seven kilometres east of Kiryat Shmona and surrounded by three streams of the Dan River, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council.
She’ar Yashuv
Village
Photo: דג בלי מלח, CC BY-SA 4.0.
She'ar Yashuv is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Upper Galilee in the northeastern Hula Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council.
Banias River
- Categories: river, nature reserve, and body of water
- Location: Quneitra Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Banias River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر بانياس الجولان”
- Arabic: “نهر بانياس”
- Asturian: “Ríu Banyas”
- Bulgarian: “Баниас”
- Cebuano: “Naẖal H̱ermon”
- Chinese: “巴尼亞斯河”
- Chinese: “班尼亞斯河”
- Chuvash: “Баниаси”
- Czech: “Banias”
- Czech: “Nachal Chermon”
- Czech: “Nahal Hermon”
- Dutch: “Banyas”
- French: “Baniyas”
- German: “Banyas”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Μπανιάς”
- Hebrew: “Naẖal H̱ermon”
- Hebrew: “בניאס”
- Hebrew: “מסלול הטיול בנחל חרמון”
- Hebrew: “נחל בניאס”
- Hebrew: “נחל חרמון”
- Hebrew: “נחל פניאס”
- Hebrew: “פניאס”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Banias”
- Irish: “Banyas”
- Italian: “Banyas”
- Latin: “Banyas”
- Macedonian: “Банијас”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Banias”
- Norwegian: “Banias”
- Portuguese: “Rio Banias”
- Romanian: “Râul Banias”
- Russian: “Баниас”
- Russian: “Банияс”
- Russian: “Хермон”
- Spanish: “Rio Banias”
- Spanish: “Río Banias”
- Urdu: “دریائے بانیاس”
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Localities in the Area
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