Skip to content
Iran Tour Packages
IranianTours Logo
  • Home
  • Tours
  • Travel Services
    • Visa
    • Hotels
    • Flights
    • Travel Insurance
    • Transport
    • Car Rental
    • Arrival Packages
    • Guides
  • Iran Guide
    • Facts
    • Provinces
    • Cities
    • Maps
    • Attractions
    • Souvenirs
    • Events
  • Useful Info
    • Journal
    • Useful Contacts
    • Dresscode
    • Customs
    • Currency
    • Some Price Samples in Iran
    • Farsi Language
    • Food & Drinks in Iran
    • Iranian Calendar and Official Time
    • Communications
    • Transportation Links
  • FAQ
Menu
  • Home
  • Tours
  • Travel Services
    • Visa
    • Hotels
    • Flights
    • Travel Insurance
    • Transport
    • Car Rental
    • Arrival Packages
    • Guides
  • Iran Guide
    • Facts
    • Provinces
    • Cities
    • Maps
    • Attractions
    • Souvenirs
    • Events
  • Useful Info
    • Journal
    • Useful Contacts
    • Dresscode
    • Customs
    • Currency
    • Some Price Samples in Iran
    • Farsi Language
    • Food & Drinks in Iran
    • Iranian Calendar and Official Time
    • Communications
    • Transportation Links
  • FAQ
Search

Home » Blog » Attractions » A peek into ‘world’s longest’ qanat

A peek into ‘world’s longest’ qanat

  • October 30, 2021
The recently-restored Qanat of Zarch is widely known as the world’s longest subterranean aqueduct as it stretches some 80 km across the semi-arid Yazd province in central Iran.
The qanat starts from the village of Fahraj located in the northeast of Yazd and it runs at the depth of 30-40 m beneath the surface. It reaches Zarch, where the water is used for irrigation in the lower lands. Based on a survey, some 37,000 out of a total of 120,000 ancient subsurface water supply systems, qanats, are still in use in Iran in arid and semi-arid regions of the country. A selection of eleven qanats is collectively been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list under the title of Persian Qanat. Each of them epitomizes many others in terms of geographic scopes, architectural designs, and other motives. Such subterranean tunnels provide exceptional testimony to cultural traditions and civilizations in desert areas with an arid climate. Generally, each qanat comprises an almost horizontal tunnel for collecting water from an underground water source, usually an alluvial fan, into which a mother well is sunk to the appropriate level of the aquifer. UNESCO has it that “The qanats provide exceptional testimony to cultural traditions and civilizations in desert areas with an arid climate.”

IranianTours

Gardesh-haye-Irani (Iranian Tours) Travel Co. is authorized by Iran Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization under license number 126-22380 and have been working in arrangement of tours to Iran since 2001.
IranianTours also operates in London as Achaemenid Ltd. (Reg. 10700573).

Contacts

  • 3 Eskan Shopping Center, Mirdamad Ave., Tehran
  • [email protected]
  • + 98 912 190 2843
IranianTours.com old website
Old website
Twitter Instagram Youtube Facebook
Copyright 2022 by IranianTours.com
Close Menu