Hindu
| Hindu River | |
|---|---|
| |
| Data generate them | |
| Length: | 2 900 or 3180 km |
| Altitude of the source: | 5.500 m s.l.m. |
| Medium capacity: | 6.700 m³/s |
| Catchment basin: | 1.081.700 km² |
| Where it is born: | , |
| Where sfocia: | Sea of the Oman |
| Countries cross to you: | (), and |
Hindu (famous inAntiquity like Sindh or Sindhu) it is one of that it has given name to. It comes down from towards the south-west and sfocia in sea of the Oman. Hindu ago the part of i seven sacred rivers of India.
The source of the Hindu one is found in on mounts Kailâs or Gangri. The river takes its name to leave from the confluence of the torrents Sengge and Gar, that the waters of the chains of the Nganglong Kangri and the Gangdise Shan come down from the Himalayas collecting. The Hindu one passes later on towards the north-west through the Cashmere, to south of the chain of the Karakoram, then gradually turns towards south, leaving hills between Peshawar and Rawalpindi. In this area one dam forms the artificial lago of Tarbela. To leave from its confluence with the river Kaboul, the Hindu one becomes navigable.
The rest of its way towards the sea if it carries out therefore in plains of Panjâb and of Sind, and the river takes to a course much slow one then. It crosses Hyderâbâd then it is thrown in the sea of Omar with a great barren delta of 7770 km² that one extends on 200 km of coast, to south-east of Karâchi, hour considered like one of the ecological regions more important of the world.
Genetic studies have demonstrated that the dolphin of Hindu and the that one of the Gange (Gangetica Platanista), that they were considers you once like distinguished, in truth they form one single and only species.
The Indian government organizes every year the festival of Sindhu Darshan in the Ladakh on the rivers of the river in order to favor the tourism in the Cashmere.
Affluent
Correlated voices
