Tarnak River

Tarnak River

The Tarnak River is a river of the Ghazni, Zabul and Kandahar provinces of Afghanistan. It rises in Hazarajat, near coord|33|7|N|67|56|E|, south of the Lomar Pass. It flows towards the south-west for some 350 km before it joins the Dori River some 30 km downstream of the Dori-Arghastan confluence, and some 30 km upstream of the Dori-Arghandab confluence, at coord|31|24|N|65|33|E|. The combined waters of these rivers join the Helmand at coord|31|27|N|64|23|E|, near Qal'eh ye-Bost.


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