Wakhan River
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Hydrological basins in eastern Tajikistan
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The Wachandarja (also called Wakhan written or Wak; Tajik Вахондарё; Russian Вахандарья ) is the left source of the river Panj in Central Asia.
River
The river arises in the boundary region of the Hindu Kush mountains and the Pamirs in Badakhshan Province in the far northeast of Afghanistan in Baza'i gonbad in approximately 3885 meters height from the union of two mountain rivers. The smaller right springs ice fields in about 4900 meters above sea level and flows initially southwest. Upon entering the west to the east running wide high mountain Talung the Wakhan corridor he forks over a large alluvial fan. The left branch flows through the Moränenstausee Shaqmaqtin in the current flowing to the northwest Aksu. The right arm flows as Wakhan in the opposite direction. The greater left frontal flow is formed from the meltwater of several glaciers that are framed up nearly 6000 meters high mountain ranges and flows in the extended run, a späteiszeitlicher by extensive moraines glacier extents Edged high mountain.
Along with this main source of the Wakhan River has a length of 220 kilometers. He then joins the southeast of the 6726 m high Pik Karl Marx near the border with Tajikistan in the village of Langar in 2799 m height with the Pamir to the Panj.