The Indus (/ ˈ ɪ n d ə s / IN-dəs) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia. The 3,180 km (1,980 mi) river rises in Western Tibet, flows northwest through the disputed region of Kashmir, bends sharply to the left after the Nanga Parbat massif, and flows south-by-southwest through Pakistan, before emptying into the Arabian Sea near the …

Name. The Indus Valley Civilisation is named after the Indus river system in whose alluvial plains the early sites of the civilisation were identified and excavated. Following a tradition in archaeology, the civilisation is sometimes referred to as the Harappan, after its type site, Harappa, the first site to be excavated in the 1920s; this is notably true of usage employed by the ...

The Rupal River is an east-west glacial stream rising from the meltwater of the Rupal Glacier in northern Pakistan. The stream flows through the Rupal Valley, south of Nanga Parbat, before turning northeast to the village of Tarashing. The Rupal drains into the Astore River, which eventually reaches the Indus River near Jaglot.

De Indus (Urdu: دريائے سِندھ, darya-e sindh; Hindi: सिन्धु नदी, sindhu nadī; Punjabi: ਸਿੰਧ ਦਰਿਆ, sindh darya; Sindhi: سنڌو درياءَ, sindhu darya) is de belangrijkste rivier van Pakistan.. De rivier is 2880 km lang en ontspringt in het westen van Tibet.Ten noorden van het Himalayagebergte stroomt de Indus in een noordwestelijke richting ...