
The Kunar river system is fed from melting glaciers and Hindu Kush mountains snow. The Kunar River or Kunar Rud is about 480 km long and is located in eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. The Kunar river system is fed from melting glaciers and snow of the Hindu Kush Mountains.
The Lutkho River merges with the Mastuj River just north of the important regional centre of Chitral in Pakistan and is then called the Chitral River, before flowing south into the upper Kunar Valley in Afghanistan, where it is referred to as the Kunar River. Kunar River is located in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Kunar river system is fed from glaciers and snows. The feeding rivers of the Kunar River includes the Peche River, which rises in Nuristan province of Afghanistan, and the main Kunar River, which rises in the eastern Pamirs before flowing through Chitral in Pakistan into the upper Kunar Valley in Afghanistan.
The Kunar River empties into the Kabul River just to the east of the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan. The joint rivers then flow eastwards into Pakistan, meeting the Indus River at the city of Attock. Before the political division of the area divided the Kunar and Chitral Valley between the modern nation states of Afghanistan and Pakistan, it had formed an significant trade route, being the easiest way to pass through from the Pamir Mountains` passes to the plains of the Indian subcontinent.
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