Tang-e Gharu

The Kabul–Jalalabad Road passes through the Tang-e Gharu gorge.

Tang-e Gharu, also known as Tang-e Gharo (Pashto: تنگ غارو), is a gorge and a mountain pass in the Hindu Kush mountain range of Kabul Province, Afghanistan.[1] The Kabul River passes through the gorge, flowing eastward.[2] The Kabul–Jalalabad Road runs through the gorge, parallel to the river.[3] Construction on the road began in the 1940s and was completed in the 1960s,[3][4] replacing the ancient Lataband Pass in the Karkacha hills connecting Kabul and Jalalabad to Pakistan. Both the pass and the road are considered to be of major strategic importance, as they provide Afghanistan a connection to Pakistan and Russia.[5][6] Due to heavy usage during recent conflicts in Afghanistan and frequent traffic accidents, the pass and the surrounding areas have become heavily damaged and periodically closed off.[3][7]

Geology

The cliffs of Tang-e Gharu gorge are a blue-grey limestone, which was formed some 250 million years ago. However, the gorge itself is only about 2 million years old and was formed as a combination of water erosion from the river and the collapse of an underground river channel.[2]

References

  1. ^ Tang-e Gharu at GEOnet Names Server
  2. ^ a b Scheffel, Richard L.; Wernet, Susan J., eds. (1980). Natural Wonders of the World. United States of America: Reader's Digest Association, Inc. p. 369. ISBN 0-89577-087-3.
  3. ^ a b c Gladstone, Cary (2001). Afghanistan Revisited. Nova Publishers. ISBN 9781590334218.
  4. ^ Hodder-Williams, Richard; McLachlan, Keith (2013-12-16). Land-locked States of Africa and Asia. Routledge. ISBN 9781135254100.
  5. ^ Quinn, Joyce A.; Woodward, Susan L. (2015-02-03). Earth's Landscape: An Encyclopedia of the World's Geographic Features. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781610694469.
  6. ^ McColl, R. W. (2014-05-14). Encyclopedia of World Geography. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 9780816072293.
  7. ^ Chang, Richard S. "The Most Dangerous Road?". Wheels Blog. Retrieved 2017-09-23.

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