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The Kabul River, which measures 700 kilometres or 435 miles long, passes through the cities of Kabul and Jalalabad in Afghanistan. Its large drainage basin covers the eastern provinces of Nangarhār, Kunar, Laghmān, Lōgar, Kabul, Kāpisā, Parwān, Panjshēr, and Bāmyān before it flows into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan some 25 kilometres ...
Gardez River Irrigation Embankment 259,000,000 m 3 (209,975 acre⋅ft) 1967 Shahtoot Dam: Char Asiab District, Kabul Province: Kabul River: Irrigation Gravity Under Construction [23] [24] Shah wa Arus Dam: Shakardara District, Kabul Province Shakardara River: Hydroelectricity, Irrigation Gravity 180,000 m 3 (146 acre⋅ft) 75 m (246 ft) 1.2MW ...
The Mahipar Dam is located on the Kabul River next to the Kabul–Jalalabad Road in the western part of the Surobi District in Kabul Province of Afghanistan. [1] [2] [3] It is about 30 km (19 mi) away from the center of Kabul. It is a gravity dam owned and maintained by the country's Ministry of Energy and Water.
The Naghlu Dam (Pashto: نغلو برېښناکوټ) is a gravity dam on the Kabul River in Surobi District of Kabul Province in Afghanistan. It is located 40 km (25 mi) east of the nation's capital Kabul. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectricity production. The dam supports a power station with a design capacity of 100 MW of ...
Aerial photograph of Helmand River in Helmand Province Branches of the Kunar River meet in Nangarhar Province Scenic view in western Afghanistan This is a list of rivers that flow wholly or partly in Afghanistan , arranged geographically by river basin .
There are 130 villages in Surobi District. The Kabul River travels through the centre of the district and keeps the two sides of the district quite green. Three dams are in the district — Naghlu Dam, Mahipar Dam and Barqi-Surobi Dam — which generate electricity for Kabul and the district itself. However, due to lack of water, Mahipar Dam is ...
At least 20 people were killed when a boat sank while crossing a river in eastern Afghanistan Saturday morning, a Taliban official said. Quraishi Badlon, provincial director of the information and ...
In contemporary times, Kabul has served as Afghanistan's political, cultural and economical center. [9] Rapid urbanisation has made it the country's primate city and the 76th-largest city in the world. [10] The modern-day city of Kabul is located high in a narrow valley in the Hindu Kush mountain range, and is bounded by the Kabul River.