Kunar (river)
| Kunar - Chitral | ||
 The Kunar River in Kunar Province |
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| Data | ||
| location |
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( Pakistan ), Kunar , Nangarhar ( Afghanistan ) |
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| River system | Indus | |
| Drain over | Kabul → Indus → Indian Ocean | |
| Confluence of |
Lutkho and Mastuj north of Chitral 35 ° 54 ′ 9 ″ N , 71 ° 48 ′ 38 ″ E |
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| Source height | 1507 m | |
| muzzle | east of Jalalabad in Kabul Coordinates: 34 ° 24 ′ 8 ″ N , 70 ° 32 ′ 12 ″ E 34 ° 24 ′ 8 ″ N , 70 ° 32 ′ 12 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 534 m | |
| Height difference | 973 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 3.7 ‰ | |
| length | approx. 260 km (with headwaters Mastuj and Yarkhun 480 km) | |
| Catchment area | 26,000 km² | |
| Discharge at the gauge Asmar A Eo : 19,960 km² |
MQ 1960/1971 Mq 1960/1971 |
367 m³ / s 18.4 l / (s km²) |
| Discharge at the Konari A Eo gauge: 24,895 km² |
MQ 1959/1967 Mq 1959/1967 |
423 m³ / s 17 l / (s km²) |
| Left tributaries | Shishi | |
| Right tributaries | Bashgal , bad luck , Kalash | |
| Medium-sized cities | Asadabad , Chitral | |
| Small towns | Asmar | |
 The kunar near the village of Kashkot in the Kuz Kunar district (Nangarhar province) |
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The Kunar River ( Pashtun کونړ سيند Kūnaṛ sīnd ), which is also called Chitral in Pakistan , is about 260 km long (with head rivers Mastuj and Yarkhun 480 km) and flows in a south-westerly direction from northwestern Pakistan into eastern Afghanistan .
The river has dug the Chitral and Kunar valleys, it is fed by meltwater from glaciers and snowmelt in the mountains. It forms the eastern border of the Hindu Kush . The mountains of the Hinduraj rise to the east of the river . The Lutkho River joins the Mastuj in the north of the major regional center of Chitral in Pakistan and the new river is called the Chitral there, before flowing south into the Kunar Valley in Afghanistan, where it is known as the Kunar.
The Kunar flows into the Kabul River in the east of Jalalabad in Afghanistan . This flows eastwards to Pakistan and flows into the Indus at Attock .
A 1990 study by the UNHCR found that 60 percent of residents in Marawara District ( Kunar Province ) had to resort to inedible drinking water from the Kunar River.
history
Before the political division of the Kunar and Chitral valleys into the modern states of Afghanistan and Pakistan, these valleys were important trade routes that enabled the easiest way to cross the Pamir Mountains into the plains of the Indian subcontinent.
Hydrometry
Average monthly discharge of the Kunar (in m³ / s) at the Konari gauge
measured from 1959–1967
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Streamflow Characteristics at Streamgages in Northern Afghanistan and Selected Locations. (PDF 5.6 MB) USGS, accessed on January 21, 2017 .
- ↑ UNESCO ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
