Skardu Valley

Skardu Valley

Skardu is a city in Gilgit-Baltistan area of Pakistan, and attends as the center of Skardu District. Skardu is positioned in the 10 kilometres (6 miles) wide by 40 kilometers (25 miles) long Skardu Valley, at the convergence of the Indus and Shigar Rivers at an advancement of almost 2,500 meters (8,202 feet). The urban is an important entryway to the eight-thousands of the adjacent Karakoram Mountain range. The city is located on the Indus river, which splits the Karakoram Array from the Himalayas. 

The designation "Skardu" is thought to be resultant from the Balti word meaning "a low-slung land-dwelling between two in height places." The two referenced “in height places" are Shigar town, and the high-altitude Satpara Lake.

The Skardu area was part of the ethnic sphere of Buddhist Tibet meanwhile the establishment of the Tibetan Empire underneath Songsten Gampo in the mid 7th-century CE. Tibetan tantric scriptures were originate all over Baltistan up until about the 9th century. Given the section's close closeness to Central Asia, Skardu persisted in interaction with communities near Kashgar, in what is currently China's westernmost area of Xinjiang. 

Skardu's Airport is located at an promotion of 2,230 meters (7,320 feet) above sea level, still the mountain summits surrounding Skardu influence elevations of 4,500–5,800 meters (14,800–19,000 feet). Up brook from Skardu are some of the major glaciers in the world, counting the Baltoro Glacier, Biafo Glacier, and Chogo Lungma Glacier. Some of the nearby glaciers are surrounded by particular of the world's tallest mountains, with K2, the world's second highest mountain at 8,611 meters (28,251 feet), Gasherbrum at 8,068 meters (26,470 feet), and Masherbrum at 7,821 meters (25,659 feet). The Deosai National Park, the world's second highest mountainous plain, is located up brook of Skardu as well. Downstream from Skardu is positioned the Nanga Parbat mountain at 8,126 meters (26,660 feet).

The Skardu Valley, at the convergence of the Indus and Shigar Rivers, is 10 kilometers (6 miles) wide by 40 kilometers (25 miles) long. Energetic erosion in the close Karakorum Mountains has occasioned in enormous credits of residue throughout the Skardu valley. Glaciers from the Indus and Shigar valleys extended the Skardu valley amongst 3.2 million ages ago up to the Holocene approximately 11,700 years ago.

Climate

Skardu landscapes a cold semi-arid climate. The weather of Skardu throughout the summer is watered-down by its mountain setting; the penetrating heat of lowland Pakistan does not touch it. The mountains block out the summer monsoon, and summer rainfall is thus quite low. However, these mountains outcome in very undercoated winter weather. For the duration of the April-to-October traveler season, high temperature vary between a extreme of 27 °C (81 °F) and a least (in October) 8 °C (46 °F).

High temperature can dewdrop to below -10 °C (14 °F) in the December-to-January wintertime period. The lowest note down temperature was -24.1 °C (-11 °F) on 9 January 1998.