Qada'ah

Qada'ah (Arabic: ديرة الكداءة‎, romanized: Kidā'ah) is a small agricultural and livestock village, located in the northeast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in the Hajar Mountains, Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, at an approximate altitude of 870 m (2,850 ft), and just over a kilometer from the border with the neighboring Sultanate of Oman.

The village has about 20 houses, some of them rebuilt and renovated following a traditional style; embankments and terraces supported by dry stone walls, without mortar, which allow water and soil to be retained, intended for cereal planting and other agricultural uses; pipes to collect runoff water; cisterns; sheepfolds; barns and other buildings. Most habitable homes are used as second homes by their owners.

Access to Qada'ah is only possible on foot or with donkeys, generally using a rocky and steep donkey path that starts from the village of Danam, located west-northwest of Qada'ah, on the banks of the Wadi Qada'ah.

The small plateau, on which the town of Qada'ah extends, constitutes a formidable watchtower from which one can observe, to the west, a good part of the middle and lower reaches of the Wadi Qada'ah and even the coast of the Persian Gulf; to the north, the southern slope of Jabal Al Ahqab (Jabal Qada'ah); and to the east some sectors of the upper course of the Wadi Qada'ah and the cliffs and mountain ridge that serve as a reference for the border limit with Oman.