Khalafābād

Khalafabad stands on the Jarrahi, a river that emerges from the hills of Ramuz and crosses the Khuzestan plain towards the marshes and canals near the Gulf. Fields along its banks draw on the river in an otherwise dry landscape. The Jarrahi country once formed part of the principality of Dawraq, associated with the Kaʿb, whose lands lay around the lower river.