Indus Valley Desert

Indus Valley Desert

The Indus Valley Desert is a desert ecoregion of northern Pakistan. The Indus Valley desert covers an area of 19,500 square kilometers (7,500 square miles) in northwestern Punjab Province, lying between the Chenab and Indus rivers. The Indus Valley Desert is drier and less hospitable than the Northwestern thorn scrub forests that surround it.

External links

* [http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im1302_full.html Indus Valley Desert (World Wildlife Fund)]


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