River Queiq

The Queiq (Arabic: القويق al-quwayq) is a river which rises in the Aintab plateau of Southern Turkey, flowing southward for 129 km into Syria, passing through Aleppo and continuing southwest to Om el-Karameil where it dissipates into wetlands forming a fertile plain. In the late 1960s, the Queiq dried up due to damming projects in Turkey; in 1986, water was diverted from the River Euphrates via canals to refill the river, which today fills up and freezes over through winter, melts into a deep river system by spring and recedes by up to 80% during the dry summer.