Jabal Qihwi or Jabal Qa'wah () (), along with the Jabal Al Harim ()www.peakbagger. com - Jebel al Harim, Oman and Jabal Bil Ays / Jebel Jais (),www.peakbagger.com - Jabal Bil Ays, Oman are the three highest and most representative mountains of the Musandam Governorate, in Oman.
Jabal Qihwi has a prominence of and a topographic isolation of , and rises in the central area of the western boundary of the drainage divide of Karsha / Wadi Khabb Shamsi.
Its summit lies on the drainage divide, between the basins of the Wadi Khabb Shamsi (which pours into the Gulf of Oman) and the Wadi Bih, which has its main sources of origin on the southern and eastern slopes of the Jabal Al Harim (), also in the Musandam Governorate, and pours into the Persian Gulf, landing in United Arab Emirates territory.
The steep slope of the mountain, divided into short and high steps, contains two relevant peaks: the northern peak (Jabal Qihwi), and a lesser peak to the south, on which there is a weather station, is named Jabal Khabb in some maps, with an elevation of .
At north of Jabal Qihwi is the village and mountain pass of Aqabat al Asu / Aqabat Oso, Tribulus - Volume The Flora of the Ru'us al-Jibal -the Mountains of the Musandam Peninsula: An Annotated Checklist and Selected Observations - Gary R. Feulner - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2011 <https://enhg.org/Portals/1/trib/V19/TribulusV19.pdf> www.mindat.org - ' Aqabat al 'Āsū, Musandam, Oman situated also on the water divide line, at .
Through this mountain pass runs a dirt road of , called Wadi Khabb Shamsi Road, which starts at Dibba Al-Baya, and terminates at the Wadi Bih - Ras Al Khaimah Road (both ends in the Musandam Governorate), and can be used for all-terrain vehicular traffic. The route employs a good deal of the river bed of the Wadi Khabb Shamsi and some of its tributaries, and to cross the mountain range overcomes an accumulated positive slope of and a negative slope of .
Toponymy
Alternative names: Jabal Kawa, Jabal Qa`wa, Jabal Qa`wah, Jabal Qa‘wa, Jabal Qa‘wah, Jabal Qihwi, Jebel Qihwi.https://www.agda.ae/en/catalogue/tna/air/5/1284/n/46 Persian Gulf and Arabian Coast: mountains or mounds - Ref. AIR 5/1284 - 1936 - The National Archives, London, England
The name of the Jabal Qihwi (with the spellings Jabal Qa'wah and Jabal Qa'awah) appears recorded in the documents and maps prepared between 1950 and 1960 by the British Arabist, cartographer, military officer and diplomat Julian F. Walker, for the work carried out to establish the borders between the then called Trucial States, later completed by the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom, on 1:100,000 scale maps published in 1971,https://www.agda.ae/en/catalogue/tna/fco/18/1863/n/1 Map of Trucial States, Muscat and Oman - Rams - Scale 1:100 000 - Published by D Survey, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom (1971) - Edition 3-GSGS - The National Archives, London, England and in other previous documents kept in the National Archives of the United Kingdom.
Population
The geographical area of Jabal Qihwi was historically populated by the semi-nomadic Shihuh tribe, section of Bani Shatair (), one of the two main sections of the tribe, which occupied, among other territories, the tribal areas of Maqadihah and Dihamara.https://www.agda.ae/en/catalogue/tna/fo/371/132894/n/76 Tribes of Trucial States coast - Ref. FO 371/132894 - 1958 - The National Archives, London, England
See also List of mountains in Oman List of wadis of Oman List of mountains in the United Arab Emirates List of wadis of the United Arab Emirates Middle East Eastern Arabia
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