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| Shyok River | |
|---|---|
 Shyok river | |
 Course of the Shyok | |
| Etymology | "the river of death"[1] |
| Location | |
| Country | India, Pakistan |
| Territory | Ladakh (India), Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan) |
| District | Leh (India), Ghanche (Pakistan) |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • coordinates | 35°21′N 77°37′E / 35.35°N 77.62°E |
| Mouth | Indus River |
• coordinates | 35°14′N 75°55′E / 35.23°N 75.92°E |
| Basin size | 33,347 km2 (12,875 sq mi)[2] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Yugo gauging station, Pakistan.[3] |
| • average | 1041 m3/sec |
| • minimum | 859 m3/sec |
| • maximum | 1199 m3/sec |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Indus River |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Chip Chap River, Galwan River, Chang Chenmo River |
| • right | Nubra River, Hushe River |
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The Shyok River is a tributary of the Indus River that flows through northern Ladakh and enters Gilgit–Baltistan, in Pakistan, spanning some 550 km (340 mi).
The Shyok River originates at the Rimo Glacier. Its alignment is very unusual. Originating from the Rimo glacier, it flows in a southeasterly direction and, joining the Pangong Range, it takes a northwestern turn, flowing parallel to its previous path. Shyok Valley widens at the confluence with the Nubra River but suddenly turns into a narrow gorge near Yagulung (34°46′N 77°08′E / 34.77°N 77.14°E), continuing through Bogdang, Turtuk[4] and Tyakshi before crossing into Baltistan. The valley again widens near its Saltoro River junction at Ghursay. The river joins the Indus at Keris, east of the town of Skardu.[5][6]
The Nubra River, originating from the Siachen glacier, also behaves like the Shyok. Before Diskit, the southeasterly flowing Nubra takes a northwest turn on meeting the river Shyok. The similarity in the courses of these two important rivers probably indicates a series of paleolithic fault lines trending northwest-southeast in delimiting the upper courses of the rivers.
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Kapadia1999was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "India WRIS Geoviewer". Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "Detection of Sediment Trends Using Wavelet Transforms in the Upper Indus River". Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "Turtuk, the village on the India-Pak border, is where the clichés stop and fantasies begin". Archived from the original on 15 May 2015.
- ^ Aerial view of river junction
- ^ Bennett-Jones, Owen; Brown, Lindsay; Mock, John (1 September 2004). Pakistan and the Karakoram Highway. Lonely Planet Regional Guides (6th Revised ed.). Lonely Planet Publications. p. 306. ISBN 978-0-86442-709-0. Retrieved 26 August 2009.