Kabul River

The Kabul river Sanglakh Range of mountains to the west of the capital city of Kabul. The Kabul river flows for seven hundred kilometres before flowing into Pakistan just north of the Kyber pass and finishing as a tributary of the Inus River at Attock (in Pakistan).

During the harsh winter months in Afghanistan the river spends most of its year at a very small size, some would say even as a stream rather than a river. It is not until the summer months when the temperatures raise dramatically that the river becomes a large river of force because the melting winter snow adds to the rivers water shed.

The major cities located on the Kabul rivers banks are Kabul, Chaharbagh, Jalalabad and Nowshera.

The Kabul river has been known under different names in history such as the Kubha (970 AD) and the River of Ghorwand (In the Rig Veda around 1700 - 1100 BC).

Image attributed to Sven Dirks