The Panjshir River flows through the

Panjshir Valley The Panjshir Valley (also spelled Panjsher or Darah-I-Panjshir; Pashto/Dari: – ''Dare-ye Panjšēr''; literally ''Valley of the Five Lions'') is a valley in northeastern Afghanistan, north of Kabul, near the Hindu Kush mountain range. It is di ...

in northeastern

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

, north of

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

. Its main tributary is the

Ghorband River The Ghorband River is a river of Afghanistan, flowing through Parwan Province. It is a tributary of the Panjshir River, then a sub-tributary of the Indus River, then the Kabul River. The Ghorband runs entirely in Parwan province, where it gave ...

which flows from the

Parwan Province Parwan (Dari: ), also spelled Parvan, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 751,000. The province is multi-ethnic and mostly rural society. The province is divided into ten districts. The town of Imam Abu Hani ...

and joins the Panjshir River 10 km east of

Charikar Imam Abu Hanifa ( fa, امام ابو حنیفه), historically known as Charikar (Persian: چاریکار) but renamed by Talibans recently to Imam Abu Hanifa, is the main town of the Koh Daman Valley and the capital of Parwan Province in northe ...

Bagram District Bagram District ( prs, ولسوالی بگرام) is a Districts of Afghanistan, district of Parwan Province, Afghanistan. Its seat lies at Bagram, which lies about 60 kilometers north of the capital of Kabul. It borders Kabul District to the so ...

. The Panjshir River takes its source near the

Anjuman Pass The Anjuman Pass ( fa, كتل انجمن ''Kotal-e Anjoman'') (also written Anjoman Pass) (4,430 m) is a mountain pass in the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan. It connects the Panjshir Valley and beyond in the south-west with Badakhshan province and bey ...

and flows southward through the

Hindu Kush The Hindu Kush is an mountain range in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas. It stretches from central and western Afghanistan, Quote: "The Hindu Kush mountains run along the Afghan border with the North-West Frontier Provinc ...

and joins the Kabul River at the town of Surobi. A dam was built on the Panjshir River near Surobi in the 1950s to supply water from the Panjshir River to the Kabul River. There is just one permanent bridge on the Panjshir River that provides access to the Bagram Airport. On 12 July 2018, there was a flood in Panjshir Valley in which ten people were killed.

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Photo of Panjshir RiverStreamflow Characteristics at Streamgages in Northern Afghanistan and Selected LocationsMap of river basins in Afghanistan
Rivers of Afghanistan Kabul River Landforms of Panjshir Province Landforms of Kabul Province {{Afghanistan-river-stub

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