Gharm-Chashma is a

hot spring A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by c ...

in the mountains of the

Ishkoshim Range Ishkoshim Range, also Ishkashim Range (russian: Ишкашимский хребет), is a mountain range in Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan) ...

in Tajikistan's

Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province Gorno-Badakhshan, officially the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region,, abbr. / 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 percen ...

. Forty kilometres from the provincial capital

Khorugh Khorugh ( tg, Хоруғ, ; russian: Хорог, translit=Khorog; ) is the capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) in Tajikistan. It is also the capital of the Shughnon District of Gorno-Badakhshan. It has a population of 30,5 ...

, the spring reaches temperatures as high as 50–75 °C, with water bubbling and gushing in micro-geysers to a height of 1 metre. Season of warm mineral water On the west side of the Shahdary Ridge, in the typical watercourse of Garm-Chashma River, Garma-Chashma (Hot spring) is situated 2,325 m above sea level. The spring age is over a million millennia. On the floor, the mineral water grows in the shape of tiny and wide jets from 10 cm to 1.5 m from large depths. One jet has a second between 5 and 7 litres. The water is murky and contains calcium balls from limy soils.

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