Shaksgam River (Pakistan and China)
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- Work cat.: 200439860: Mason, K. Exploration of the Shaksgam Valley and Aghil ranges, 1926.
- GEOnet, Aug. 30, 2005(Muztāgh River, Pakistan, stm, 36⁰37ʹ00ʺN 076⁰12ʹ00ʺE, name not known, China)
- BGN, July 1982(Muztāgh River, Pakistan, stream, 36⁰37ʹN 76⁰12ʹE, variants: Shaksgam, K'olo-ch'ung Ho, Kelechin R.)
- Boundary agreement between China and Pakistan, signed at Peking on 2 March 1963 via WWW, Aug. 30, 2005("From the aforesaid point, the boundary line runs up the Kelechin River (Shaksgam or Muztagh River) along the middle line of its bed to its confluence (reference co-ordinates approximately Longitude 76⁰02ʹE and Latitude 36⁰26ʹN) with the Sorbulak Daria (Shimshal River or Braldu River).")
- Desio, A. Geology of the Upper Shaksgam Valley, North-East Karakorum, Xinjiang (Sinkiang), 1980:p. 1 ("The Shaksgam river is one of the left tributaries of the Yarkand river and joins it near Toquz Bulaq about 245 km from its source ... The headwaters of the Shaksgam outflow from an unnamed glacier belonging to the catchment area of the Yarkand river, into which some of its melt water flow. The Shaksgam and Yarkand basins are connected here by the Shaksgam pass or Shaksgam-la.")
- Wikipedia [Dutch], Aug. 31, 2005(Shaksgam (Urdu: Muztagh))
Wikipedia description:
The Shaksgam River is a left tributary of the Yarkand River. The river is also known as the Kelechin River (Chinese: 克勒青河) and Muztagh River (Chinese: 穆斯塔格河). It rises in the Gasherbrum, Urdok, Staghar, Singhi and Kyagar glaciers in the Karakoram. It then flows in a general northwestern direction parallel to the Karakoram ridge line in the Shaksgam Valley. It receives the waters of the Shimshal Braldu River and the Oprang River from the Pakistan-administered Hunza District before turning east and joining the Yarkand River. The stretch of the river's course between Shimshal Braldu and Oprang is used as the Pakistan–China border. Administratively, the Chinese part of the valley is within the southernmost portions of Yarkand County (the source) and the Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County (lower course). India claims the entire valley as part of its Jammu and Kashmir state, now part of Ladakh.
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