{"id":24601,"date":"2024-06-30T07:21:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T01:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24601"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:12:44","slug":"key-facts-about-shyok-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-shyok-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Shyok River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Shyok River:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a river that <strong>flows through northern Ladakh<\/strong> in Jammu and Kashmir, India, and <strong>enters the<\/strong> Pakistan-administered region of <strong>Gilgit-Baltistan<\/strong>, where it <strong>joins the Indus River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>tributary of the Indus<\/strong> River.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It originates from the <strong>Rimo Glacier<\/strong>; one of the <strong>tongues of the Siachen Glacier,<\/strong> and gets its name from a Ladakhi word meaning &#8216;the river of death&#8217;.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The alignment of the Shyok river is very strange, originating from the Rimo glacier, it <strong>flows in a South-East direction<\/strong> and at <strong>joining the Pangong range,<\/strong> it takes a north-west turn and flows parallel to its prior path.<\/li>\n<li>The Shyok, flowing in a broad valley, rapidly <strong>enters a narrow gorge after Chalunka<\/strong> and then <strong>joins the Indus at Skardu (Pakistan).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The total length of the river is around <strong>550 km<\/strong> (340 mi).<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>fed by meltwater from numerous glaciers<\/strong> on its journey.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>meanders through the high-altitude desertsand mountain ranges<\/strong> of Ladakh before converging with the Indus.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Its<\/strong> main right-bank <strong>tributary is the Nubra River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: Which are the main tributaries of the Indus River?<\/h3>\n<p>The Indus receives its most-notable tributaries from the eastern Punjab Plain. These five rivers\u2014the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej\u2014give the name Punjab (\u201cFive Rivers\u201d) to the region divided between Pakistan and India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/ladakh\/five-tank-bound-army-soldiers-swept-away-while-crossing-river-in-ladakh\/article68347280.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Five soldiers swept away by Shyok river during military training in Ladakh: Army<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shyok River is a tributary of the Indus River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}