300px, Gharm-Chashma hot springs Gharm-Chashma is a

hot spring A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a Spring (hydrology), spring produced by the emergence of Geothermal activity, geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow ...

in the mountains of the Ishkoshim Range in Tajikistan's

Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province Gorno-Badakhshan, officially the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in eastern Tajikistan, in the Pamir Mountains. It makes up nearly forty-five percent of the country's land area but only two percent of its popul ...

. The spring is located 40 kilometres from the provincial capital

Khorugh Khorog ( ), also Khorugh ( ) or Kharagh ( ), is the capital of Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. It is also the capital of the Shughnon District of Gorno-Badakhshan. It has a population of 30,500 (2020 ). Khorog is above sea level in the Pamir M ...

, at an elevation of above sea level. The spring reaches temperatures as high as 50–75 °C, with water bubbling and gushing in micro-geysers to a height of 1 metre. The water is also murky and contains calcium balls from limy soils.

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