Tarnak River

The Tarnak River is located in Ghazni, Zabul, and Kandahar provinces of Afghanistan. The city of Kandahar is located on a plain directly adjacent to the Tarnak.^[1]

Tarnak River
Location
Country	Afghanistan

It rises in Afghanistan's highlands region of Hazarajat, near 33°7′N 67°56′E, south of the Lomar Pass. The Tarnak flows in a south-westerly direction for around 350 km before joining the Dori River some 30 km downstream of the Dori-Arghastan confluence, and some 30 km upstream of the Dori-Arghandab confluence, at 31°24′N 65°33′E.^[2] The combined waters of these rivers join the Helmand at 31°27′N 64°23′E, near Lashkargah.^[3]

Geography

The Tarnak River valley is a tectonic trough that runs from northeast to southwest. It has multilayered aquifers and both Quaternary and Neocene deposits.^[4]

References

1. "Kandahar | Afghanistan, Map, Population, History, & War | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 2023-11-02. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
2. Jones, H. Helsham (1879). The History and Geography of Afghanistan and the Afghan Campaigns of 1838-9 and 1842: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the R.E. Institute, Chatham, December 1878. Spottiswoode. p. 93.
3. "Helmand River | river, Central Asia". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
4. Shroder, John F.; Ahmadzai, Sher Jan (2016-06-13). Transboundary Water Resources in Afghanistan: Climate Change and Land-Use Implications. Elsevier. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-12-801861-3.