Surkhab

The Surkhab is a river of Afghanistan which runs in the provinces of Paktiyâ and of Nangarhar. It is an affluent of the Kabul out of Right Bank, therefore a tributary of a tributary of the Indus.

Geography

Surkhab is born in the district from Azra at the northern end from the province from Paktiyâ, but runs above all in province of Nangarhar, where it gave its name to the district of Surkh Rod. It takes as of the beginning the direction of the North-East then is, direction which it maintains throughout its course. It thus skirts to north the Western part of the chain of the Safed Koh, of which it receives melt waters of snows and the glaciers. It joins the Kabul, out of Right Bank, with ten kilometers upstream (in the west) of Jalalabad.

The catchment area of Surkhab corresponds roughly to the totality of the district of Azra in province of Paktiyâ, plus the 20% Westerners of the province of Nangarhar (i.e. districts of Cherzad and Hisarak, as well as the three Western quarters of the districts of Khogyani and Surkh Rod).

Affluents

Surkhab especially receives multiple affluents out of Right Bank, the latter primarily fed by the snow melt of the northern slope of the Safed Koh, in spring and in summer.

Homonymy

the Surkhob is an important river of the Tadjikistan and Kyrgyzistan, affluent of the Amou-Daria.

External bond

Chart of the vegetable cover of the province of Nangarhar, with topography of the glaciers and the rivers of the basin of Surkhab

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