Shiva Lake

Lake Shiva is one of the most unusual and mysterious lakes located in Afghanistan, eight kilometers from the Panj River. It is located in a picturesque basin at an altitude of about 3.100 meters. The lake is separated from the Panj River by an 80-meter blockage from which the flow of water into the Panj River is filtered. From the basin of the left tributary of the Panj River, the lake is separated by the Kurang Pass.

The approximate length of the lake is 9 kilometers, and the width is from 7.000 meters to 2 kilometers, the area of the lake is 13.8 square kilometers. The first to visit Lake Shiva in 1882 was the European Albert Eduardovich Regel. For a long time, the slopes and shores of the lake were famous pastures. In the past, in the vicinity of the lake gathered up to 12,000 nomads, who grazed 1.2 million sheep.