Jabal Qada'ah (major)

Jabal Qada'ah (Arabic: جبل قداعة‎, romanized: Jabal Kidā'ah), also known as Jabal Al Aḩqab, is a mountain located in the Hajar Mountains range, northeast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.

Its summit has an altitude of 1,375 m (4,511 ft), a significant prominence of 460 m (1,510 ft) and a topographic isolation of 4.36 km (2.71 mi), so the elongated and solitary silhouette of the mountain, in the form of a plateau, stands out and is perfectly visible even from a long distance.

The Jabal Qada'ah forms a ridge line that extends in three directions:

Towards the northwest, with an important subsummit or subpeak of 1,345 m (4,413 ft), with only 45 m (148 ft) of prominence, located 600 m (2,000 ft) away from the main summit, which on some maps is referenced with the name of Jabal Qada'ah (minor). This ridge line then continues to the south and east, with the peaks of Jabal Ar Ra'il (768 m (2,520 ft)), Jabal Ad Diri (612 m (2,008 ft)) and other smaller ones, forming part of the northern flank of the drainage divide of Wadi Qada'ah.

Towards the southeast, the ridge descends to Wadi Qada'ah, near the village of Mak Sikek, one of the most active in the area, located on the banks of the wadi bed.

And to the north, it extends towards the summit of Jabal As Salwah (980 m (3,220 ft)), forming the eastern flank of the Wadi Ar Ra'ilah sub-basin; west of the villages of Magam and Ra's, popularly known as Deira Al-Hebsi or Deira Al-Habsi, as they were the first settlements of the Habus tribe in this bordering area between the Shihuh tribal areas (located north of the Wadi Bih), and the Habus tribal areas that settled at the south of the wadi, including the Habus tribal area of Banī Sā'ad, to which these populations belonged.