Hawis Suhayl
Hawis Suhayl is a locality in Aswan Governorate, Egypt. Hawis Suhayl is situated nearby to the village Nagaa Al-Korour, as well as near West of Suhail.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sehel Island and Philae.
Sehel Island
Island
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Sehel Island is located in the Nile, about 2 miles southwest of Aswan in southern Egypt. It is a large island, and is roughly halfway between the city and the upstream Aswan Low Dam.
Philae
Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Philae Island was an island near the expansive First Cataract of the Nile in Upper Egypt. Due to the building of the Aswan Low Dam, the island is today submerged. Philae is situated 4 km southeast of Hawis Suhayl.
Philae Temple
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Philae temple complex is an island-based temple complex in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, Egypt in Africa. Philae Temple is situated 3 km southeast of Hawis Suhayl.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shellal and Aswan.
Shellal
Village
Shellal is a small ancient village on the banks of the Nile, south of Aswan in Upper Egypt. It was the traditional northern frontier of the Nubian region with both the Egyptian Empire and the Roman Empire.
Aswan
Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt, some 870 km south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000. Aswan is far more relaxed and smaller than Cairo and Luxor.
Nile 1st. Cataract
Locality
The Cataracts of the Nile are shallow lengths of the Nile river, between Khartoum and Aswan, where the surface of the water is broken by many small boulders and stones jutting out of the river bed, as well as many rocky islets. Nile 1st. Cataract is situated 9 km south of Hawis Suhayl.
Hawis Suhayl
- Type: Locality
- Also known as: “Hawīs Suhayl, Hawis Suhayl”
- Category: lock gate
- Location: Aswan Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
24.04952° or 24° 2′ 58″ northLongitude
32.86804° or 32° 52′ 5″ eastOpen location code
7GPJ2VX9+R6OpenStreetMap ID
node 768739512OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityOpenStreetMap feature
waterway=lock_gate
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to German—“Hawis Suhayl” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حويص سهيل”
- French: “Hawis Suhayl”
- German: “Hawis Suhayl”
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