Tel Saki ( ar, تل الساقي /
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: ''Tel Al-Saki''; he, תל סאקי) is a dormant
volcanic
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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hill in the southeastern part of the
Golan Heights
The Golan Heights ( ar, هَضْبَةُ الْجَوْلَانِ, Haḍbatu l-Jawlān or ; he, רמת הגולן, ), or simply the Golan, is a region in the Levant spanning about . The region defined as the Golan Heights differs between di ...
. It extends to an
elevation
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of 594
meters
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above
sea level
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.
The hill is a part of a chain of dormant volcanic mountains spanning along the eastern part of the Golan Heights starting from
Mount Ram in the north and ending on Tel Saki in the South.
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Golan Heights
Landforms of the Golan Heights
Mountains of the Golan Heights
International mountains of Asia
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