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Bara River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

Bara River (Pashto, Urdu) is a river in Khyber District in the Peshawar Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The Bara River originates in the Tirah Valley of Bara Tehsil, Khyber District. It joins the Kabul River Canal which originates from the Warsak Dam, and re-enters Peshawar. Then it flows in a north-easterly direction to the Nowshera District, eventually joining the Kabul River near Camp Koruna, Akbarpura. Due to its higher elevation, very limited areas flow through gravity into Bara river. The Bara River is noted to have some pollutants - including both from industry and from village sewage, the river flows all year round due to melting snow and rainfall, the highest flows are April and May while January has the lowest. In 1930 during the colonial era, a bridge was built across the river - it was primarily designed for carrying infantry and military equipment and was opened for traffic on 23 November of that year, it was dismantled in 1933 after being superseded by another bridge.

Bara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bara Tehsil Kabul River topics

Flows through: Pakistan.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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