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The Indus forms the division between the Western Himalayas and the Karakoram range to the north. The Western Himalayas include the Zanskar, Pir Panjal Ranges, and parts of the Sivalik and Great Himalayas. The western anchor Nanga Parbat is the highest point in the region at 8,126 m (26,660 ft). [28]
The parts of India in brown and white, lying above the yellow and green portions of this map, lie in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) The Indian Himalayan Region (abbreviated to IHR) is the section of the Himalayas within the Republic of India, spanning thirteen Indian states and union territories, namely Ladakh, [1] Jammu and Kashmir, [2] [3] [4] Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, West ...
Collision of the Indian continent with Eurasia occurred at about 55 million years ago. Source: www.usgs.org (modified) Fig 5: Geologic - Tectonic map of the Himalaya, modified after Le Fort & Cronin (1988). Green is the Indus-Yarlung suture zone. Fig 6: Geological Map of the NW Himalaya; for references, see image description or bibliography ...
The Western Himalayas are the western half of the Himalayas, in northwestern India and northern Pakistan. Four of the five tributaries of the Indus River in Punjab ( Beas , Chenab , Jhelum , and Ravi ) rise in the Western Himalayas; while the fifth, the Sutlej cuts through the range after rising in Tibet.
The Himalayan Rim is the region surrounding the Himalayas.. Geographically, it is surrounded by the Iranian Plateau in the west, Hindu Kush and Karakoram and Pamir ranges in the northwest, the Tibetan Plateau in the north, the Indochinese Peninsula in the east, and the Indian subcontinent in the south.
The Gurans Himal is a small subrange of the Himalayas in far western Nepal. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is little-known, since it does not contain any 8000 metre peaks , or even any peaks above 7,200 metres. Its highest peak is Api , 7,132 m (23,399 ft), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which, despite its relatively low height compared to the major Himalayan peaks, rises ...
The Eastern Himalayas sustain a diverse array of wildlife, including many rare species of fauna and flora. [3] Wildlife in Nepal includes snow leopard in its Himalayan region, and Indian rhinoceros, Asian elephant and water buffalo in the foothills of the Himalayas, making the country one of the world's greatest biodiversity hotspots.
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