🌊 Rivers · Northern and North-eastern Mountains
Indus (Sindhu)
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The westernmost Himalayan river in India. It rises from a glacier near Bokhar Chu in Tibet, in the Kailash range, where it is called Singi Khamban (the Lion’s mouth). It flows north-west between the Ladakh and Zaskar ranges, through Ladakh and Baltistan, receives the Kabul at Attock and the Panjnad (the five rivers of Punjab) above Mithankot, and meets the Arabian Sea east of Karachi. In India it flows through the Union Territories of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir.
📘 NCERT Class 11, India: Physical Environment, Ch. 3 (Drainage System) ↗
Tributaries and parts of this system
📜 Near here in history
YugMap sites and events within about 20 km of the river as drawn on the map.
- c. 2,600 BCE Mature Harappan urban phase begins
- c. 400 BCE Panini composes the Ashtadhyayi
- 325 BCE Alexander's army sails down the Indus
- 1008 Battle of Chach
- 1221 Chinggis Khan pursues Jalal ad-Din to the Indus
- 1843 Annexation of Sindh
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