Umm al-pigs Island (Baghdad City) | tourist attraction

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The island is known as Umm al-pigs, because there are large numbers of wild pigs in it. The island takes a safe natural habitat before it is covered by tourist care. It becomes a wonderful tourist facility, but after the events of 2003 it was neglected and subverted by High
It was opened in 1979 with a total area of ​​678 dunums and contains two complexes, the first is the wedding complex and the second is the Green Complex.

The wedding complex was invested
On February 13, 2010, US forces announced that they had returned the wedding island to the Iraqi government, with a special agreement to return the wedding island, signed by the representative of Prime Minister Samir Haddad while signed by the American side Colonel David Madden after it was taken as a US base after 2003 for its location Strategy
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It was one of the largest and most important river islands in the city of Baghdad and the most densely populated natural plant since its establishment until the eighties is located in the middle of the Tigris River between the areas of Jadiriyah Karrada East, and Qadisiyah near Karkh, and linked to the Qadisiyah by an iron bridge (located under the bridge now) A phrase you are moving visitors.
The area ranged from 322 dunums to 2,400 dunums, and the difference in area was between more than one estimate of the contrast of the maps drawn and the time it was painted.
The origin of the name appeared more than a name and it seems that the name of (or pigs) was made in the late 1920s because of the large number of wild pigs in (Zora) thick.
It was then called Abu Nuwas Island and then it was called the Island of Weddings.
There are those who estimate the age of the island more than 50 years and other estimates indicate that it may be up to two centuries, as the extension of the convex beach to twist the Jadiriyah into the river by sediment and separation from the land takes a long time.
The end of the river Shittit (River Khar or good) flows in the branch of the Tigris adjacent to the grove opposite the island.
The tourist uses of the island are located at the western end of the island and in the southern part of it. It can be said that the area of ​​tourist facilities and its green spaces in the city of weddings and the green complex are not less than (50) dunums. These facilities consist of two complexes:
Al Khadra Tourist Complex (Abu Nawas Tourism Complex)
The complex consists of 40 apartments, each apartment consists of a double room with a total area of ​​100 m 2 with its accessories. In February 1978, the General Establishment for Tourism established the first phase of the tourist complex on the island and completed its work at the end of October 1979
City Complex
The complex consists of 27 villas (4 villas) with special uses. The area of ​​one house with its annexes and garden is 2500 m2. There are other tourist facilities such as restaurants, rural village, games room, swimming pools, kiosks and lake of fish.
Other tourist uses (hunting birds), which are famous for the island, including the cyclist, which has been the target of hunting rifles since the early English occupation of Baghdad.

In the island, there are rare birds, such as Hassoun, Thistle, Golden Lantern, different plaques, orchard and water birds (Khudairi, Ducks, Wazers, swans) as well as other animals. Such as foxes.
The Jadriya Bridge passes over the southern part of the island.
In the 1980s, the branch of the river adjacent to the Karkh side was canceled and the island was annexed to Karkh from Baghdad and canceled as an island.
Half of the island was annexed to the presidential areas in the 1980s and only the wedding and green complexes remained open to people.
In the 1990s, the beginning of the island was transformed into an artificial lake at a high level from the river, opposite the Al-Sijood Palace, within the closed presidential areas, which can be seen from Abu Nuwas Street across the other bank.
Is currently inhabited by transgressors and the government agencies responsible for them to block the island's investment in a large investment project includes the establishment of various new tourist facilities and the first golf course in Baghdad.