Kishon River
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in northern Israel
- Also known as: “El Muquatta”, “Koshon River”, “Mukata”, “Mukutta”, “Naẖal Qishon”, “Nahr al Muqatta`”, “Nahr el Mukatta”, and “Quishon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Haifa International Airport and Tell Abu Hawam.
Haifa International Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Oyoyoy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Haifa Airport, also known as Uri Michaeli Airport, is an international airport in Haifa, Israel. It is Israel's oldest international airport and the third-busiest.
Tell Abu Hawam
Archaeological site
Tell Abu Hawam is the site of a small city established in the Late Bronze Age in the area of modern-day Haifa, Israel. It was known to the Crusaders as Latin: Cayphas Vetusta and Latin: Vetus Cayphas.
Haifa Power Plant
Power station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Haifa Power Plant is a power station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Halisa and Nave Sha’anan.
Halisa
Suburb
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Halisa, also spelled Khalisa, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of Haifa in northern Israel. It is located in the administrative region of Nave Sha'anan-Izraeliya, on the edge of the Mount Carmel.
Nave Sha’anan
Suburb
Nave Sha'anan is a large residential neighborhood in eastern Haifa, Israel that extends from the lower inclines of Mount Carmel to midway across its slopes. Nave Sha’anan is situated 2½ km south of Kishon River.
Hadar HaCarmel
Suburb
Photo: Tomer chelouche, Public domain.
Hadar HaCarmel is a district of Haifa, Israel. Located on the northern slope of Mount Carmel between the upper and lower city overlooking the Port of Haifa and Haifa Bay, it was once the commercial center of Haifa. Hadar HaCarmel is situated 3 km west of Kishon River.
Kishon River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Kishon River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kishon River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر المقطع”
- Armenian: “Կիշոն”
- Asturian: “Ríu Kishon”
- Basque: “Kixon”
- Cebuano: “Nahr al Muqaţţa‘”
- Chuvash: “Кишон”
- Czech: “Kishon”
- Czech: “Kišon”
- Czech: “Nachal Kišon”
- Czech: “Nahal Kishon”
- Dutch: “Kishon River”
- Finnish: “Kison”
- French: “Kishon”
- German: “Kischon”
- Hebrew: “Naẖal Kishon”
- Hebrew: “הקישון”
- Hebrew: “נחל הקישון”
- Hebrew: “נחל קישון”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Kison”
- Italian: “Qishon”
- Japanese: “キション川”
- Mongolian: “Кишон гол”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kishon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kisjon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kishon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kisjon”
- Norwegian: “Kishon”
- Persian: “رودخانه کیشون”
- Polish: “Kiszon (rzeka)”
- Polish: “Kiszon”
- Portuguese: “Quisom (rio)”
- Portuguese: “Quisom (Rio)”
- Portuguese: “Rio Quisom”
- Romanian: “Kishon”
- Romanian: “Râul Chișon”
- Russian: “Киссон”
- Russian: “Кишон”
- Russian: “Эль-Мукатта”
- Slovenian: “Kišon”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیشون چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Kishon”
- Spanish: “Río Kishon”
- Swedish: “Kishon”
- Swedish: “Kishonbäcken”
- Swedish: “Kishonfloden”
- Ukrainian: “Кішон (річка)”
- Ukrainian: “Кішон”
- Welsh: “Afon Kishon”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Ge’ula and Shkhunat Ziv.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shipyards Port and Tell Abu Hawam.
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