Gumal River

Gumal River

      river that rises in eastern Afghanistan near Sarwāndī on the Khumbur Khūlē Range and enters western Pakistan near Domandi, being joined there by the Kundar River. Further joined by the Wāna Toi and Zhob rivers, it falls into the Indus River just south of Dera Ismāīl Khān after a course of 150 miles (240 km). Dams under construction in the 1980s at Miān Nūr and Khajūri Kach, below the confluence of the Gumal and Zhob rivers, formed part of a multipurpose scheme to include flood control, irrigation of about 164,000 acres (66,400 hectares) of cropland in the locality of Dera Ismāīl Khān, and the production of hydroelectric power.

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