Koh-i-Chiltan ( Balochi: کوہٖ‌چٖلتن; ''”Mount Chiltan”'') is a peak located in the Chiltan mountain group of the

Sulaiman Mountains The Sulaiman Mountains, also known as Kōh-e Sulaymān, Kasē Ghrūna Da Suleiman Ghruna (Pashto: د كسې غرونه ، د سلیمان غرونه; "Mountains of Qaes/Kasi and Solomon") ( Balochi:; "Mountains of Solomon") are a north–south ex ...

, in the

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, in western

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. Koh-i-Chiltan is the summit of a steep, rocky mountain called ''Chiltan'' or ''Chehel-Tan'' in Brahui, which means "forty bodies". It is the third-highest peak in Quetta after

Zarghun Ghar Zarghun Ghar (, lit. "Green Mountain"), or Zarghoon Mountains, is a mountain range located in the east of Quetta District, in Balochistan Province of western Pakistan. The range, which is part of the Sulaiman Range, contains the tallest mountai ...

and

Koh-i-Takatu Koh-i-Takatu (;Takatu Mount ”) is a Mount peak located in the Sulaiman Mountains range, in the North east of Quetta District of Balochistan Province, in western Pakistan. The highest peak of this Mountain range is Loai Saar or (Lwarrh Saar) ...

, and the fifth-highest peak of

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. There are many juniper trees found in high ranges.

Koh-i-Chiltan legends

In local folk culture, Koh-i-Chiltan is said to be haunted. A local story about the mountain tells the tale: ::A frugal couple, married for many years, were unblessed with offspring. They therefore sought the advice of a holy man, who rebuked the wife, saying that he had not the power to grant her what Heaven had denied. The priest's son, however (also a holy man), felt convinced he could satisfy her wishes, and cast forty pebbles into her lap, at the same time praying that she might bear children. In time, the wife gave birth to forty babies—far more than she had wished for or could care for. The husband, at his wits' end, ascended to the summit of Chehel-Tan with thirty-nine of the children and left them to fend for themselves while the fortieth baby was brought up under the paternal roof. ::One day, however, touched by remorse, the wife unknown to her husband explored the mountain with the object of collecting the bones of her children and burying them. To her surprise, they were all living and gambolling among the trees and rocks. Wild with joy she ran back to her dwelling brought out the fortieth babe and placing it on the summit of the mountain left it there for a night to allure back its brothers, but on returning in the morning she found that the latter had carried it off and it was never seen again. It is by the spirits of these forty babies that Chehel-Tan is said to be haunted.

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The type section is chiltan ranges, the formation is mainly consist of dark gray massive bedded limestone forms thick bands with rough surface (3–20 ft) thick, the limestone is highly resistant and it forms some of the highest mountains around the quetta valley, the chiltan formation is underlined by shrinab formation (shrinab valley) the lower contact is transitional and upper contact is represented by an abrupt change in lithology from limestone to sembar shale. https://www.msn.com/en-xl/asia/pakistan/pair-of-rare-persian-leopards-spotted-on-mount-chaltan/ar-AAKcrd1

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Koh-i-Chiltan legends

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