JORDAN

JORDAN / الأردنّ

East Ghor Canal Project.
Last stamp in a stamp of 5, issued on 20.09.1963.
Face value: 35 Jordanian fils.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 42 x 31 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 394.
- Scott No. 404.
- StampWorld No. 399.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 536.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 372.

The East Ghor Canal (Arabian: قناة الغور الشرقية), renamed King Abdullah Canal (قناة الملك عبدالله) in 1987, is the largest irrigation canal system in Jordan and runs parallel to the east bank of the Jordan River. Its main water source is the Yarmouk River and the Al-Mukhaibeh wells within the Yarmouk valley: farther south, additional water flows from Wadi el-Arab and from the Zarqa River. The canal’s design capacity is 20 m3/second at the northern entranceand 2.3 m3/second at its southern end. Water flows by gravity along its 110 km (68.35 mi) length, ranging in elevation from about 230 m (755 ft) below sea level to almost 400 m (1,312 ft) below. The Canal supplies water for irrigation and 90 million cubic meters/year of drinking water for Greater Amman through the Deir Allah-Amman carrier, which has been constructed in two phases in the mid-80s and in the early 2000s. The canal was designed in 1957 and was built in phases. Construction began in 1959, and the first section was completed in 1961. By 1966, the upstream portion to Zarqa River was completed. The canal was then 70 km (43.5 mi) in length, and was subsequently extended three times between 1969 and 1987.