Pamir River

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Hydrological basins in eastern Tajikistan

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The Pamir is the right source of the river Panj in Central Asia.

River

The river arises in the Pamir Mountains in the autonomous province of Gorno-Badakhshan in the east of Tajikistan have expressed. He entfließt which lies in 4130 m height Zorkulsee or arises from its headwaters and then flows on the border with Afghanistan in the west. At the interface of the towering Pamir Mountains and the Hindu Kush, he joins southeast of the 6726 m high Pik Karl Marx in the village of Langar in 2799 m height with the Wachandarja (also called Wak or Wakhan ) for Panj.

The in Tajikistan near the Afghan border lying Langar, where a hydroelectric power plant was built, lies in a narrow valley between the mountains of the Hindu Kush and Pamir.