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Image: Indus.jpg|thumb|300px|The Indus River in northern Pakistan, near the rock Aornus. Course The ultimate source of the Indus is actually in Tibet; it begins at the confluence of the Sengge River and Gar River that drain the Nganglong Kangri and Gangdise Shan ranges. The Indus then flows northwest through Gilgit-Baltistan just south of the Karakoram range, then gradually bends to the south, coming out of the hills between Peshawar and Rawalpindi. It is dammed in this area also, forming the Tarbela Reservoir. The remainder of its route to the sea is in plains of the Punjab and Sind, and the river becomes slow-flowing and highly braided. Passing by Hyderabad, Pakistan|Hyderabad, it ends in a large delta to the southeast of Karachi. Tributaries
Other The Indus is one of the few rivers in the world that exhibit a tidal bore. The Indus is, by volume, the largest exotic river (one that mainly flows through country from which it receives no water) in the world. The Indus Valley Civilization was one of the oldest urban civilizations in the world. Its name comes from the Sanskrit word for river, 'sindhu', from which the 's' was dropped by its adoption into Persian. This gave the Persians the name of the land associated with the river 'Hindu' and the Greeks, dropping the 'H', 'Indus'. Its name was given to the entire subcontinent by the Romans, who adapted it to the current 'India'. The Indus River Dolphin, modern genetic studies show, lives both in the Indus River and in the Ganges River|Ganges. The two populations were formerly considered distinct species. It formerly occurred in the tributaries of the Indus also and may have extended into the northwestern extremities of the Indian Province of Punjab. Located southeast of Karachi, the large delta has been recognised by conservationists as one of the world's most important ecological regions.
Category:Rivers of Pakistan Category:Rivers of Tibet Category:Indian rivers da:Indus de:Indus eo:Induso et:Indus es:Indo (r?o) fr:Indus ja:インダス川 nl:Indus (rivier) sa:सिन्धु नदी sv:Indus zh:印度河 hi:सिन्धु नदी This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Indus River".
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