Kulachi (کلاچی) is a city named after the Kulachi Baloch tribe and is the headquarter of
Kulachi Tehsil
Kulachi Tehsil is a tehsil located in Dera Ismail Khan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.Dera Ismail Khan District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...
. It is located at at an altitude of 209 metres (688 feet).
Economy
Kulachi is an agricultural city. The area lies at the foot of the
Sulaiman Range
The Sulaiman Mountains, also known as Kōh-e Sulaymān ( Balochi/Urdu/ fa, ; "Mountains of Solomon") or Da Kasē Ghrūna ( ps, د كسې غرونه; "Mountains of Kasi"), are a north–south extension of the southern Hindu Kush mountain system i ...
and hence is irrigated by flood water from
Sulaiman Mountains
The Sulaiman Mountains, also known as Kōh-e Sulaymān ( Balochi/Urdu/ fa, ; "Mountains of Solomon") or Da Kasē Ghrūna ( ps, د كسې غرونه; "Mountains of Kasi"), are a north–south extension of the southern Hindu Kush mountain system i ...
. The system of irrigation is called
Rod Koh Rod Koh or Rod Kohi ( fa, راد کوہ) is a form of irrigation system in Pakistan. ''Rod'' means ''channel'' and ''Koh'' means ''mountain'' in Persian. The Rod Kohi system based on Kulyat Riwajat (Fromulae and Traditions) which governed the irri ...
i, a system of mountain channels or hill-torrents inundating the whole valley of
Damaan Damaan Valley is a valley of Dera Ismail Khan District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is situated 55 km from Dera Ismail Khan. Sherani mountain range on its west side and Sulaiman Range in the south-west. Pezu mountains Shei ...
("Rod" means "channel" and "Koh" means "mountain" in
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
). The Rod Kohi system based on "Kulyat Riwajat" (Fromulae and Traditions) governed the irrigation system ever since the Pathan tribes had moved into
Damaan Damaan Valley is a valley of Dera Ismail Khan District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is situated 55 km from Dera Ismail Khan. Sherani mountain range on its west side and Sulaiman Range in the south-west. Pezu mountains Shei ...
. The British officers reduced all these to writing during their Land Settlemts in the later part of nineteenth century. The Bolton Irrigation Notes of 1908 are still considered as the Bible of Rod Kohi Irrigation. The city population consists of two major ethnic groups, the
Pushtuns
Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically r ...
and the Baloch (mostly speaking Saraiki as of now).
Demographics
According to census 2017, population of Kulachi Tehsil is 101892 whereas population of Kulachi city is 24753.
Notes
{{Coord, 31, 55, 43, N, 70, 27, 33, E, region:PK_type:city, display=title