Hi,
I did not know it, but the Dan River (or stream as we refer it to in Hebrew) is the main tributary stream of the Jordan River.
It does not seem so because, unlike the other 2 main tributaries, the river breaks into many small distributaries. Each time you see a small stream flowing into the Hasbani (Snir) stream or the Banias (Hermon) stream. But in the end, all those small rivulets gather up to provide about half of the Jordan River water (annually).
It is not clear if those distributaries are natural or created to water the fields in Hasbani Valley. The Paldi rivulets, for example, are following the routes of ancient Roman watering tunnels that also used to run flour mills.
The main source of the Dan River is Dan Spring, the largest karstic pring in the Middle East (another thing I did not know), with stady flowing of about 7 cubic meters a day all year around (unlike the Hasbani and Banias streams, which their flow increase during the winter due to the rains). The water is at a temperature of about 14 degrees Celsius.
The spring is spread over many small water sources in a 30×40 meter area in Tel Dan. It is fed from the snow of Mount Hermon that melts and trickles down to the spring.
Take Care
Gad
The North Paladi distributary of the Dan River inside Snir (Hasbani) Stream Nature Reserve
The south Paladi distributary of the Dan River inside Snir Stream Nature Reserve
The south Paladi distributary of the Dan River before Dag Al HaDan restaurant and delly
Koren stream distributary inside Kibbutz Hagoshrim
A map of the 3 main tributaries of the Jordan river: Hasbani (Snir) on the left, Banias (Hermon) on the right and in the middle (with all the distributaries) is the Dan River
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