Rafidain العربية

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Hawizeh Marsh

هور الحويزة

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One of Iraq’s largest marshes, stretching east of the Tigris to the Iranian border, and among the best preserved.

It is one component of the Ahwar of Southern Iraq, inscribed on the World Heritage list in 2016, with its reeds, water buffalo and wooden boats.

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