Tarnak River

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The Tarnak River is located in Ghazni, Zabul, and Kandahar provinces of Afghanistan. The city of Kandahar is located on a plain directly adjacent to the Tarnak.[1]

It rises in Afghanistan's highlands region of Hazarajat, near Script error: No such module "Coordinates"., south of the Lomar Pass. The Tarnak flows in a south-westerly direction for around 350 km before joining the Dori River some 30 km downstream of the Dori-Arghastan confluence, and some 30 km upstream of the Dori-Arghandab confluence, at Script error: No such module "Coordinates"..[2] The combined waters of these rivers join the Helmand at Script error: No such module "Coordinates"., near Lashkargah.[3]

Geography

The Tarnak River valley is a tectonic trough that runs from northeast to southwest. It has multilayered aquifers and both Quaternary and Neocene deposits.[4]

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