Kulachi (کلاچی) is a city named after the
Kulachi tribe, and is the headquarter of
Kulachi Tehsil (an administrative subdivision) of
Dera Ismail Khan District in
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of
Pakistan
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. 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 and hence is irrigated by flood water from
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 ...
. The system of irrigation is called
Rod Kohi, a system of mountain channels or hill-torrents inundating the whole valley of
Damaan ("Rod" means "channel" and "Koh" means "mountain" in
Persian). The Rod Kohi system based on "Kulyat Riwajat" (Fromulae and Traditions) governed the irrigation system ever since the Pathan tribes had moved into
Damaan. The British officers reduced all these to writing during their Land Settlemts in the later part of 19th 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 and the
Baloch who mostly speak
Saraiki.
Demographics
Population
As of the
2023 census, Kulachi had a population of 24,481.
Demographics
According to the 2017 census,
the population of Kulachi Tehsil is 101,892 whereas the population of Kulachi city is 24,753.
Religion
Notes
{{Coord, 31, 55, 43, N, 70, 27, 33, E, region:PK_type:city, display=title
External links
* https://www.citypopulation.de/en/pakistan/distr/admin/dera_ismail_khan/60704__kulachi/
Populated places in Dera Ismail Khan District
Cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa