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This is a list of rivers wholly or partly in Afghanistan
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, arranged geographically by river basin
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Flowing into the Arabian Sea
*''Indus River
The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia. The river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in Western Tibet, flows northwest through the disputed region of Kashmi ...
(Pakistan)''
**Gomal River
Gomal River ( ur, , ps, ګومل سیند، ګومل دریاب) is a river in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It rises in the northern part of Afghanistan's Paktika Province. It joins the Indus River 20 miles south of Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakh ...
*** Kundar River
***Zhob River
Zhob River ( ps, ږوب سيند; ) is located in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The total length of the Zhob River is 410 km, and it flows on a generally northeasterly course.
Etymology
In the Pashto language, ''Zhob'' means ...
**Kurram River
The Kurrama River ( ps, د کورمې سيند), or Kurram River, originates from watershed of Spin Ghar in the Paktia Province of Afghanistan and the Kurram District of Pakistan, flows through North Waziristan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, passing t ...
** Kabul River
***Bara River
Bara River ( ps, باړه سیند; ur, دریائے باڑہ ) is a river in Khyber Agency and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Bara River originates in the Tirah Valley of Bara Tehsil, Khyber Agency. It joins the Kabul River Canal which or ...
***Kunar River
The Kūnaṛ River ( ps, د کونړ سيند), also known in its upper reaches as the Mastuj ( ps, مستوج سين), Chitral ( khw, کونڑ سين; ur, دریائے کونڑ), or Kama River ( khw, کامې سين), is about long, located ...
****Pech River
The Pech River ( ps, پېچ سيند) is located in eastern Afghanistan.
Course
The Pech River system is fed from glaciers and snow from the Hindu Kush range to its north. The river rises in central Nuristan Province and flows south and sou ...
****Landai Sin River
The Landai Sin River ( ps, لنډی سين ''Lanḍai Sīn'', "Short River"), also called the Bashgal River (), is located in eastern Afghanistan. It rises in the Hindu Kush range near the Mandol Pass in the Nuristan Province of Afghanistan, a ...
*** Surkhab
***Alingar River
The Alingar River (also Alingâr) is a river in Laghman Province of eastern Afghanistan.
It is one of the major tributaries of the Kabul River, part of the Indus River basin. It has two sources, the Ramgel and Kulem rivers.
It gives its name t ...
*** Panjshir River
****Ghorband River
The Ghorband River is a river of Afghanistan, flowing through Parwan Province. It is a tributary of the Panjshir River, then a sub-tributary of the Indus River, then the Kabul River.
The Ghorband runs entirely in Parwan province, where it gave ...
*****Salang River The Salang is a 438 kilometre long river of Afghanistan, flowing through Parwan Province. It is a tributary of the Indus River and the Ghorband River and the Panjshir River and the Kabul River.
Geography
The Salang River originates on the south s ...
*** Logar River
Flowing into
endorheic basin
An endorheic basin (; also spelled endoreic basin or endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but drainage converges instead into lakes ...
s Harut River
The Harut River or Adraskan River is a river of Afghanistan. It is a river which belongs to the Sistan Basin. The source of the river lies in the mountains to the southeast of Herat
Herāt (; Persian: ) is an oasis city and the third-larges ...
(or Ardaskan River)
*Farah River
The Farah River ( ps, د فراه سیند; fa, فراه رود) is a river in western Afghanistan. The river originates in the Band-e Bayan Range in the eastern part of Ghor Province, and flows for to the Helmand swamps on the Afghanistan-Iran ...
*Helmand River
The Helmand River (also spelled Helmend, or Helmund, Hirmand; Pashto/ Persian: ; Greek: ' (''Etýmandros''); Latin: ') is the longest river in Afghanistan and the primary watershed for the endorheic Sistan Basin. It emerges in the Sanglak ...
**Khash River
The Khash River (or Khash Rud River) is a river in Afghanistan.
The Khash rises in the southern part of Ghor Province on the southern slopes of Siah-Koh (Black Mountain), and flows southwest towards the towns of Delaram, Khash, and Zaranj in Ni ...
**Arghandab River
Arghandab is a river in Afghanistan, about in length. It rises in Ghazni Province, west of the city of Ghazni, and flows southwest passing near the city of Kandahar, and then joins the Helmand River below Grishk. In its lower course, it is mu ...
***Dori River
The Dori, also called the Lora and Kadanai, is a river of Afghanistan and Pakistan. It runs for from Balochistan in Pakistan through Kandahar Province in Afghanistan, then flows into the Arghandab River.
The Dori begins north of the city of Qu ...
****Tarnak River
The Tarnak River is a river of Ghazni, Zabul and Kandahar provinces of Afghanistan. It rises in Hazarajat, near , south of the Lomar Pass. It flows towards the south-west for some 350 km before it joins the Dori River some 30 km downst ...
****Arghistan River
The Arghistan or Arghastan is a river in southern Afghanistan. It flows through Arghistan District and the provinces of Zabul and Kandahar. It is a tributary of the Dori River, a sub-tributary of the Helmand River. It flows for and has a basin a ...
***** Lora River
** Musa Qala River
** Tirin River
**Kaj River
The Kaj is a river of western Afghanistan, flowing through Daykundi Province. It is a major tributary of the Helmand River.
Geography
The river rises in the far northern province of Daykundi Province in Daykundi District in the region called ...
Ab-i Istada
Ab-i Istada ("standing water") is an endorheic salt lake in Nawa District, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. It lies in a large depression created by the Chaman Fault system in the southern foothills of the Hindu Kush, south-southwest of Ghazni.
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* Ghazni RiverSome sources indicate that the Ab-e Istadeh lake has a seasonal outlet to the Lora River, a tributary of the Arghistan River in the Helmand basin. SeIntegrated Water Resources Management for the Sistan Closed Inland Delta
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Karakum Desert
The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara-Gum ( tk, Garagum, ; rus, Караку́мы, Karakumy, kərɐˈkumɨ), is a desert in Central Asia. Its name in Turkic languages means "black sand": "" means sand; "" is a contraction of : " ...
*Harirud
The Hari River ( or prs, هری رود, translit=Harī Rōd; ps, د هري سیند) or Herat River is a river flowing from the mountains of central Afghanistan to Turkmenistan, where it forms the Tejend oasis and disappears in the Karakum Des ...
**Jam River
* Murghab River
** Kushk River
**Kashkan River
Aral Sea
The Aral Sea ( ; kk, Арал теңізі, Aral teñızı; uz, Орол денгизи, Orol dengizi; kaa, Арал теңизи, Aral teńizi; russian: Аральское море, Aral'skoye more) was an endorheic lake lying between Kazak ...
basin
*Amu Darya
The Amu Darya, tk, Amyderýa/ uz, Amudaryo// tg, Амударё, Amudaryo ps, , tr, Ceyhun / Amu Derya grc, Ὦξος, Ôxos (also called the Amu, Amo River and historically known by its Latin name or Greek ) is a major river in Central Asi ...
** Sari Pul River, no longer reaches the Amu Darya
** Balkh River, no longer reaches the Amu Darya
** Khulm River (formerly Tashkurgan River), no longer reaches the Amu Darya
**Kunduz River
The Kunduz River ( ps, د کندز سیند; fa, رود قندوز) is a tributary of the Amu Darya in northern Afghanistan. It rises in Bamyan Province in the Hindu Kush, and in its upper reaches is also known as the Bamyan River or the Surkhab R ...
(or Surkhab River)
***Khanabad River
The Khānabād River ( ps, د خان اباد سیند; fa, رود خانآباد) flows in the provinces of Takhar and Kunduz in northern Afghanistan. The Khanabad River is a tributary of the Kunduz River, which is in turn a tributary of the ...
*** Andarab
***Bamiyan River
**Kokcha River
The Kokcha River ( fa, رودخانه کوکچه) is located in northeastern Afghanistan. A tributary of the Panj river, it flows through Badakhshan Province in the Hindu Kush. It is named after the Koksha Valley. The city of Feyzabad lies alo ...
*** Anjuman
**Panj River
The Panj (russian: Пяндж; fa, رودخانه پنج) (; tg, Панҷ, پنج), traditionally known as the Ochus River and also known as ''Pyandzh'' (derived from its Russian name "Пяндж"), is a tributary of the Amu Darya. The river ...
*** Aksu (Bartang)
*** Pamir River
*** Wakhan River
** Shirin Tagab River, no longer reaches the Amu Darya
***Shor Darya River
See also
*List of dams and reservoirs in Afghanistan
Dams and reservoirs in Afghanistan are used for irrigation, water supply, hydro-electric power generation or combination of these. Below are a map and a chart showing some of Afghanistan's dams and reservoirs.
Location map of major reservoirs a ...
* Water supply in Afghanistan
Water supply in Afghanistan is managed by the National Water Affairs Regulation Authority (NWARA), which is based in Kabul, Afghanistan. The nation's water supply is characterized by a number of achievements and challenges. Among the achievement ...
References
External links
* Map of Principal River Drainage Systems at page 12 * {{Authority controlAfghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is borde ...
Rivers
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...