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The Jordan Valley is the inland drainage with the lowest base level in the world (400 m below sea level at the Dead Sea). Lake Hula and Lake Kinneret represent intermediary base levels. Lake Kinneret drains a catchment area of 2,730 km2 from an altitude of 2,800 m (Mount Hermon) down to a base level of 209 m below MSL.
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Mero, F. (1978). Hydrology. In: Serruya, C. (eds) Lake Kinneret. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9954-1_5
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