Petra is an ancient rock cut city in the Ma'an Governorate of southern Jordan, known to its Nabataean inhabitants as Raqmu. The Nabataeans used efficient rainwater collection and desert farming to survive and built Petra into a major regional trading center, reaching an estimated population of 20,000 in the 1st century AD when the famous Al-Khazneh structure was likely built as a royal mausoleum; the city was absorbed into the Roman Empire in 106 AD as part of Arabia Petraea and gradually declined as sea trade routes emerged and a devastating earthquake in 363 AD damaged its water systems.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Elevation (m) Latitude30.328889 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Petra (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
-0800-00-00T00:00:00Z
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 30.328889, longitude 35.440278
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 800 m
P2046 (area)
area 261.71 sq km
- In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
View the Source2. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 30.3289,35.4403
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 893.0
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 30.25, 35.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 30.25, 35.25
30.25 35.25 BWh
4. GeoNames: Wādī Mūsá - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 246008Quote, cities500 record 246008
30.32096 35.47895 P PPLA2 JO 19 14000 1127 Asia/Amman
Wikidata: Petra
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