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[[File:Watapur district-2012.jpg|260px|thumbnail|Watapur district, Kunar valley]] |
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[[File:2001 Afghanistan Konar Valley 3D (30796918681).jpg|260px|thumbnail|Kunar valley, 3D]] |
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'''Kunar Valley''' is a [[valley]] in [[Afghanistan]] and [[Pakistan]]. In Afghanistan the length of the valley is almost entirely narrow with steep and rugged mountains on both sides. The center of the valley is occupied by the [[Kunar River]] flowing south where it joins the [[Kabul River]]. Subsistence farming and goat-herding are the extent of agriculture production on the valley floor and lower elevations. There are limited and small forested areas in some side valleys but more than 95% of the valley has been [[deforestation|deforested]]. In limited areas at higher elevations there are sustained grassy mountain meadows. Overwhelmingly though the Kunar Valley is an arid, rocky, steep landscape with a fast-moving muddy river as its primary geographic feature.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060525193255/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HE17Df01.html Osama back in the US crosshairs] Syed Saleem Shahzad, [[Asia Times]], ( May 17, 2006).</ref> |
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[[Category:Valleys of Afghanistan]] |
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[[Category:Valleys of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]] |
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[[Category:Landforms of Nuristan Province]] |
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[[Category:Landforms of Kunar Province]] |
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[[Category:Landforms of Nangarhar Province]] |
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Kunar Valley is a valley in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Afghanistan the length of the valley is almost entirely narrow with steep and rugged mountains on both sides. The center of the valley is occupied by the Kunar River flowing south where it joins the Kabul River. Subsistence farming and goat-herding are the extent of agriculture production on the valley floor and lower elevations. There are limited and small forested areas in some side valleys but more than 95% of the valley has been deforested. In limited areas at higher elevations there are sustained grassy mountain meadows. Overwhelmingly though the Kunar Valley is an arid, rocky, steep landscape with a fast-moving muddy river as its primary geographic feature.[1]
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[edit]- ^ Osama back in the US crosshairs Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times, ( May 17, 2006).
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