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Between Plains and mountains, so arguably it has its geographic place Pakistan. This Asian country is the Union of several completely different systems, so we can find the desert area to the West, the mountainous north and the River Indus Basin which toured the country from North to South.

Pakistan and the Indus Valley

Located Northwest of the Indian subcontinent, Pakistan occupies a good part of the Valley of the Indus River, between the mountains Sulaimán and the undulations of the Indian State of Rajasthan.

The essential part of the territory of Pakistan consists of a basin subsidence, depression which is filled by thousands of metres of thickness of the sediments that are transported along the 3,180 kilometres in length which is the Indus and its tributaries.

In the North of the country where the mountains make Act of presence of majestic and impressive form in the landscape, these form an arc that consists of three very different morphological zones:

The Himalayan region.
The Transhimalaya region.
The edge of the Iranian plateau.

The set of high mountains that make up the region of the Transhimalaya, Pakistan belongs the massif of the Karakorum, 8,611 meters is the second highest peak on Earth after Mount Everest. The Himalayan region is separated from the Transhimalaya Upper Indus Valley.

Three morphological regions comprising entirely of Pakistan, is the edge of the Iranian plateau which presents a smaller height being crashed by mountainous folds with guidance from North to South.

South of the country is occupied by the low arid plains of Sind, which extends between the Kirthar mountains to the West, and the Thar desert to the Southeast.

Mountains of Pakistan
Pakistan can be considered as one of the highest in the world in terms of terrain, and is in its interior you can find more than 35 summits with more than 7,300 metres each.

It is in the North of the country where they emphasize the impressive reliefs of the Western Himalayas, whose two giants occupying Pakistani soil are Nanga Parbat with 8.126 meters of altitude and the Karakorum.

To the West, the mountains decrease considerably, specifically is in this area where the mountains Sulaimán constitute summits higher, just come to reach 3,300 meters above sea level, far from the spectacular figures Nanga Parbat and the Karakorum.
Climate of Pakistan

The climate of Pakistan is characterized by its aridity, and the low average annual precipitation is, different measurements have been able to demonstrate that its rainfall is almost always is less than 500 mm. In Karachi for example less than 200 mm of rain fall during the year.

Summer temperatures are high for mastery of continental high pressures which are characteristics of these regions of Asia. Maximum of up to 34 ° C can be registered in the city of Hyderabad on full arid plains of Sind.

In winter the temperatures are typical of a tropical and subtropical arid climate, generally being high in much of the country. However, it will be in higher areas, where the climatic conditions are most extreme and further change, and is that in winter the temperatures are very low and the snows cover many of the peaks.