WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOW !

Wadi Mujib, historically known as Arnon, is a gorge in Jordan which enters the Dead Sea at 410 meters below sea level. The Mujib Reserve of Wadi Al Mujib is the lowest nature reserve in the world, located in the mountainous landscape to the east of the Dead Sea, approximately 90 km south of Amman. The reserve is located in the central highlands of the southern part of Jordan valley. The reserve includes a system of mountains and wadis extending from the rift valley escarpment to the Dead Sea Shores.

• Location Administrative authorities: The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature – RSCN
• Declaration Date: 2011
• Latitude 31.4997° or 31° 29′ 58.8″ north Longitude 35.6252° or 35° 37′ 30.8″ east.
• Area (ha): The total area of the reserve is 21,200 ha
• Core area(s): 12,817.52 ha
• Buffer zone(s): 7,672.28 ha
• Transition area(s): 710.2 ha

A large part of Central Jordan is drained by the Wadi el-Mujib basin. This river developed a deep canyon through the Moab plateau, the eastern shoulder of the Dead Sea Rift.

Intense subsidence of the base level at the Dead Sea is the main cause for the high rate of Pliocene/Pleistocene fluvial incision along the lower reaches of the Mujib basin.