Kulachi (کلاچی) is a city named after the
Kulachi Baloch tribe and is the headquarter of
Kulachi Tehsil (an administrative subdivision) of
Dera Ismail Khan District
Dera Ismail Khan District ( ps, ډېره اسماعیل خان ولسوالي, bal, ڈیرہ عِسمائیل خان, ur, , skr, ; often abbreviated as D.I. Khan) is a district in Dera Ismail Khan Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in P ...
in
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...
province of
Pakistan
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. It is located at at an altitude of 209 metres (688 feet).
Economy
Kulachi is an agricultural city. The area lies at the foot of the
Sulaiman Range and hence is irrigated by flood water from
Sulaiman Mountains. The system of irrigation is called
Rod Kohi, a system of mountain channels or hill-torrents inundating the whole valley of
Damaan ("Rod" means "channel" and "Koh" means "mountain" in
Persian
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). The Rod Kohi system based on "Kulyat Riwajat" (Fromulae and Traditions) governed the irrigation system ever since the Pathan tribes had moved into
Damaan. The British officers reduced all these to writing during their Land Settlemts in the later part of nineteenth century. The Bolton Irrigation Notes of 1908 are still considered as the Bible of Rod Kohi Irrigation. The city population consists of two major ethnic groups, the
Pushtuns and the Baloch (mostly speaking
Saraiki as of now).
Demographics
According to census
2017, population of Kulachi Tehsil is 101892 whereas population of Kulachi city is 24753.
Notes
{{Coord, 31, 55, 43, N, 70, 27, 33, E, region:PK_type:city, display=title
External links
* https://www.citypopulation.de/en/pakistan/distr/admin/dera_ismail_khan/60704__kulachi/
Populated places in Dera Ismail Khan District
Cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa