The Gabral Valley is a valley in the

Swat District Swat District (, ps, سوات ولسوالۍ, ) is a district in the Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. With a population of 2,309,570 per the 2017 national census, Swat is the 15th-largest district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa prov ...

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province,

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. It is located in the south slopes of the westernmost end of the

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. Its lower end is at the town of

Gabral Gabral (also spelled Gabrāl, or Ghabral) is a village and union council in Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. It is located on the slopes of the western end of the Himalayas, at the lower end of the Gabral Valley, where the ...

, about 20 km north (by road) from

Kalam ''ʿIlm al-Kalām'' ( ar, عِلْم الكَلام, literally "science of discourse"), usually foreshortened to ''Kalām'' and sometimes called "Islamic scholastic theology" or "speculative theology", is the philosophical study of Islamic doc ...

and 120 km north of

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, at an altitude of 2290 m. The name is also spelled as Gabrāl. The main part of the valley extends for about 38 km northwards of the town of Gabral. Its highest end is at , about 6 km east of the peak of the Kharakali (or Kakhari; 5871 m).Armin Beer, Erwin Lang and Helmut Hesse (1980):
A trip from Ushu to Chitral
. ''Himalayan Journal'', volume 36 The

Gabral River Gabral (also spelled Gabrāl, or Ghabral) is a village and union council in Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. It is located on the slopes of the western end of the Himalayas, at the lower end of the Gabral Valley, where the ...

, a tributary of the Utrar River, runs through most of the valley. Hundreds of houses are scattered through the southernmost 7 km of the valley, but some farms are seen for the next 7–8 km. A road runs parallel to the river for about 14 km, until 2 km below Lake Kharkhari.Gabral Valley
. Google Maps at 35.68 N 72.40 E. Accessed on 2019-03-18. Kharkhari_Jheel

Kharkhari (also spelled Karkaray) is a small lake in Gabral Valley, about 400 m long and 250 m wide. It is traversed by the Gabral River.Gabrāl, Utrar, Kalam, Matiltan
. Google Maps at 35.5368 N 72.2285 E. Accessed on 2019-03-18.Muhammad Hamayun, Sumera Afzal, and Mir Ajab Khan (2006):
Ethnopharmacology, indigenous collection and preservation techniques of some frequently used medicinal plants of Utror and Gabral, district Swat, Pakistan
. ''African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines'', volume 3, issue 2, pages 57-73. It is located about 41 km by road from the town of

, 16 km north of the town of

and 9 km north of the Gul Bandaj bridge, at an altitude of 5160 meters (See note in "talk page" about this elevation?).

Flora and fauna

The natural resources of the region include several

medicinal herbs Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesize hundreds of chemical compounds for various functions, including defense and protection a ...

that are collected for local use and export.Muhammad Hamayun, Sumera Afzal, and Mir Ajab Khan (2006):
Ethnopharmacology, indigenous collection and preservation techniques of some frequently used medicinal plants of Utror and Gabral, district Swat, Pakistan
. ''African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines'', volume 3, issue 2, pages 57-73.

References

Tourist attractions in Swat Geography of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa {{Swat-geo-stub