
The orchard is set within Baghdads city limits, pertaining to the New Baghdad quarter. It is situated fifteen kilometres from Sahat Al-Tahrir (The central roundabout in Baghdad). There are many routes of access to the land; the nearest being via Kanat Al-Jaish, to which the entrance is six kilometres away. The orchard is twenty-three acres (an Iraqi acre is 2500m2) in area. There is a ten kilometre stream that runs adjacently which is under lease from the local authority. Hence, the total area of the plot is thirty-three Iraqi acres. The whole plot bears approximately one thousand, two hundred palm trees, most of which have been renewed and replaced with palm trees in the region of five to thirty years old. The earliest palm trees are approximately ninety years old. All the palm trees are of an excellent or rare type. The shore of the orchard is six hundred and fifty-six metres in length along the River Diyala. The depth of the shoreline varies between fifty and two hundred and fifty metres at the most. From the entrance of the plot and leading to the riverside leads a road twenty-two metres in width. It would be possible to divide the whole area to smaller plots of one or two Iraqi acres thereby offering each plot an independent and private entrance aswell as its own river front. The nearby residential areas are less than two hundred metres away from which there is a tarmced road leading right up to the entrance of the orchard. The administrative authority responsible for the orchard is Haiy Al-Khalij (previously known as Al-Ameen), Mahala seven hundred and forty-five. There is development potential to create a tourist complex or residential housing. A principal feature of the plot is its proximity to central Baghdad. Aesthetically, it is endowed with a vast beautiful shoreline overlooking orchards all around. |
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