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The Barada ((アラビア語:بردى) / ALA-LC: ''Baradá''; (ギリシア語:''Chrysorrhoas'')) is the main river of Damascus, the capital city of Syria. == Topography and source== Throughout the arid plateau region east of Damascus, oases, streams, and a few minor rivers that empty into swamps and small lakes provide water for local irrigation. Most important of these is the Barada, a river that rises in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and disappears into the desert. The Barada flows out of the karst spring of Ain al-Fijah, about north west of Damascus in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, but its true source is Lake Barada, a small lake that is also a karst spring located about from Zabadani. The Barada descends through a steep, narrow gorge named "Rabwe" before it arrives at Damascus, where it divides into seven branches that irrigate the Al Ghutah (الغوطة) oasis, the location of Damascus. Eventually the Ghouta reached a size of 370 square kilometers, although in the 1980s, urban growth started replacing agricultural use with housing and industry.〔 Note: text doesn't have permanent URL. Click "Land, Water, and Climate" at link.〕 The river has also suffered from severe drought in the last decades, mainly due to the lower rainfall rates and the large increase in the population in the region. It also suffers from serious pollution problems, especially in the summer, where there is almost no flow and little water in the basin. "Barada" is thought to derive from the word ''barid'', which means "cold" in Arabic. The ancient Greek name means "golden stream". File:TOBIN(1855) p282 PASS OF SOOC BARRADA.jpg|The upper valley of the Barada in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains 1855 File:Damascus-8.jpg|Barada river 1868 File:Barada2.jpg|Barada river about 1930 File:Barada River, Damascus, Syria.jpg|Barada river near the Citadel of Damascus 2006 File:Feeja Spring.jpg|Ayn Fījah File:ISS036-E-012047.jpg|Annotated view of Barada and Damascus with surroundings, as seen from space in 2013 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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