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Baatara gorge waterfall

The Baatara gorge sinkhole is a waterfall in the Chatine, near Balaa. The waterfall drops 255 metres into the Balaa Pothole, a cave of Jurassic limestone located on the Lebanon Mountain Trail.
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  • Type: Waterfall
  • Description: waterfall
  • Also known as: “Gouffre de Balaa”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tannourine and Laqlouq.

Village
Photo: Canaïma, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town located in the Batroun District, part of the Governorate of , 80 km from the capital . is formed by a cluster of mountain settlements located in the highs of the Batroun District, the largest of which is El-Fawqa, followed by Chatine,Tannourine El-Tahta, and Wata Houb. is situated 3 km east of Baatara gorge waterfall.

Village
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, also spelled Laklouk and also known as ′Arab is a small mountainous village in mountainous area in the of , . is situated 4 km south of Baatara gorge waterfall.

Village
Bchaaleh, alternatively spelled , Bchealeh or Bshaaleh, is a village in the Batroun District of the in . It had 1,456 eligible voters in the 2009 elections, and the residents mainly belonged to the Maronite Church. is situated 5 km northwest of Baatara gorge waterfall.

Baatara gorge waterfall

Latitude
34.17373° or 34° 10′ 25″ north
Longitude
35.87059° or 35° 52′ 14″ east
Open location code
8G6Q5VFC+F6
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q38593
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Baatara gorge waterfall” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شلال باتارا”
  • Arabic: “شلالات بالوع بالعا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baatara şəlaləsi”
  • Dutch: “Baatara gorge waterfall”
  • French: “Gouffre des Trois Ponts”
  • Georgian: “ბაატარა”
  • Georgian: “ბაატარის ხეობის ჩანჩქერი”
  • German: “Baatara gorge waterfall”
  • Hebrew: “מפלי בולען באלעא”
  • Italian: “cascata delle gole del Baatara”
  • Italian: “Cascata delle gole del Baatara”
  • Kazakh: “Баатара шатқалы сарқырамасы”
  • Lithuanian: “Baataros tarpeklio krioklys”
  • Mazanderani: “ئوشار باتارا جرج”
  • Mazanderani: “باتارا جورج ئوشار”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baatarafossen”
  • Persian: “آبشار باتارا جرج”
  • Persian: “ابشار باتارا جرج”
  • Portuguese: “Cascata Baatara George”
  • Russian: “Баатара”
  • Russian: “Водопад Баатара”
  • Tajik: “Баатара Ҷорҷ”
  • Tajik: “Обшори Баатара Ҷорҷ”
  • Tajik: “Шаршараи Баатара Ҷорҷ”
  • Telugu: “బాటరా గోర్జ్ జలపాతం”
  • Urdu: “باتارا گورگ آبشار”
  • Uzbek: “Baatara”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Baatara gorge waterfall”. Photo: Elie plus, CC BY-SA 3.0.