Panj River Dividing the Afghanistan Tajikistan Borders Asia

            Viewed from Tajikistan 2010. I travelled through Afghanistan in 1976.
Afghanistan with the pack animal and pedestrian track, Tajikistan with a gravel vehicular road and power lines.
The Panj River is a tributary of the Amu Darya. The river is 1,125 km long and forms a considerable part of the Afghanistan - Tajikistan border.
The river is formed by the confluence of the Pamir River and the Wakhan River near the village of Qila-e Panja. From there, it flows westwards, forming the border of Afghanistan and Tajikistan. After passing the city of Khorog, capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan it receives water from one of its main tributaries, the Bartang River. It then turns towards the southwest, before joining the river Vakhsh and forming the greatest river of Central Asia, the Amudarya. Panj played a very important role during Soviet times, and was a strategic river during the Soviet military operations in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
A water treaty between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, signed in 1946, allows Afghanistan to draw 9 million cubic metres of water a year. It currently draws 2 million cubic metres of water. According to the Pyanj River Basin Project environmental damage could be expected if Afghanistan drew the entire amount of water from the river that the treaty allows.
   

Taken in: Afghanistan / Badakhshan / Wudab (show map)

Taken on: June 25, 2010

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/4.5, 1/80 sec, 58mm, ISO 125 (more info) (hide info)

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