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Shahba volcanic hills in Sweida .. Natural features and promising sites for tourism investment

2019-11-08T09:53:01.332Z


As-Suwayda-Sana Four volcanic hills emerge in Shahba, Suwayda Governorate


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In the city of Shahba in the province of As-Suwayda, four volcanic hills represent natural features and form a distinctive view that attracts the admiration of anyone who sees them or intends to visit the region.

Shahba Hills was formed according to the director of the endosperm tourism expresses Arbeed at the end of the casting of refugees from the east as a result of exposure of the region to a large volcano, indicating that three of them are pure volcanic tuff and one of purely rocky volcanic residues.

Arbid points out that the saws, knives and casts found around the hills indicate that the city of Shahba was inhabited by a prehistoric man, where migrating waves from the Arabian Peninsula had settled since the third millennium BC before becoming the capital of the Nabataean Arabs in the first century BC.

According to al-Arbeed, these hills, which are located in a single pattern with a length of more than one kilometer west of Shahba, include Shehan, North and South Al-Ghuratain, characterized by its dark black sand “Scoria”, which has an important industrial and scientific value. Large rock mass with a height of about 1060 meters above sea level and is characterized by the presence of three small craters, the diameter does not exceed 6 to 7 meters and a depth of 2 to 3 meters can be used economically as a basalt reserve in the province.

As for the possibility of investing these hills in the process of tourism promotion, the Director of Tourism explained that Tel Shehan, located in the northwestern region, which is 1035 meters above sea level with steep slopes in all directions, has been introduced in the context of religious tourism, where thousands of people visit it every year.

Al-Arbeed explains that in the southern Al-Gharara hill “Qalaa” was started to praise a canteen and a tourist restaurant and put it for investment with a study to establish a mini-cable car between it and the hill of camel, which is located to the north of it, and up to the Damascus-Sweida Highway from the west, stressing the importance of employing the site In adventure tourism and work to find investments in it serve the movement of tourist arrivals to the province in general and meteors in particular.

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Source: sena

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