Sinadil is a settlement in

Oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of t ...

, located on the northern edge of the Hajjar mountain range just south of the village of

Sayh Mudayrah Sayh Mudayrah, pronounced locally ''Sayḥ Muzayraʿ'' ( ar, سَيْح مُزَيْرَع), is a township in Masfout, an exclave of the Emirate of Ajman, the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is located on the Madam/ Hatta Highway ( E44) near the O ...

Ajman Ajman ( ar, عجمان, '; Gulf Arabic: عيمان ʿymān) is the capital of the emirate of Ajman in the United Arab Emirates. It is the fifth-largest city in UAE after Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Al Ain. Located along the Persian Gulf, it is ...

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...

. It is 8 km to the west of Hatta in the direction of

Hadf Hadf is a village in Al Buraimi Governorate, in northeastern Oman. It is administered as a condominium with certain rights held by the bordering Emirate of Ajman. Hadf, a small area on the Arabian Peninsula, a part of Oman, at one time was join ...

. Although Sinadil was originally part of Ajman, it was transferred to Oman in the 1980s.

Geography

Sinadil is an old name referring to the triangular piece of land lying between Wadi

and one of its

distributaries A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel. Distributaries are a common feature of river deltas. The phenomenon is known as river bifurcation. The opposite of a distributary ...

. The gap through which the wadi exits the Hajjar mountains is 200 metres wide and known as the ''Sinadil gap''. The area is good for agriculture and the

wadi Wadi ( ar, وَادِي, wādī), alternatively ''wād'' ( ar, وَاد), North African Arabic Oued, is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a valley. In some instances, it may refer to a wet (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water onl ...

s are used for irrigation. Agriculture ends about 1 km downstream. A deep gorge at Sinadil has running water most of the year and stretches some 300 meters and is 15 to 20 metres deep. The Wadi Hadf at Sinadil is unique in that it flows both East to the Wadi Hatta and West to the Madam plain and Wadi Fayah, thereby creating a wadi that flows to the

Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Persis, Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a Mediterranean sea (oceanography), me ...

and

Gulf of Oman The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman ( ar, خليج عمان ''khalīj ʿumān''; fa, دریای عمان ''daryâ-ye omân''), also known as Gulf of Makran or Sea of Makran ( ar, خلیج مکران ''khalīj makrān''; fa, دریای مکرا� ...

from a single point in the

Hajar Mountains The Hajar Mountains ( ar, جِبَال ٱلْحَجَر, Jibāl al-Ḥajar, ''The Rocky Mountains'' or ''The Stone Mountains'') in northeastern Oman and also the eastern United Arab Emirates are the highest mountain range in the eastern Arabian ...

Archaeology

Sinadil is the site of numerous ancient

petroglyph A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions ...

s.Haerinck, p. 79

References

Bibliography

* Feulner, Gary R., "A mountain wadi that flows to both the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman", ''Tribulus: Bulletin of the Emirates Natural History Group'', vol. 9.2, pp. 26-28, Autumn/Winter 1999. * Haerinck, Ernie, "Petroglyphs at Sinadil in the Hajjar mountains", pp. 79-87, in C.S. Phillips, D.T. Potts, S. Searight (eds), ''Arabia and Its Neighbours: Essays on Prehistorical and Historical Developments Presented in Honour of Beatrice de Cardi'', Brepols, 1998 {{ISBN, 2503506658. Populated places in Oman