Topography and climate of Pakistan
Between plains and mountains, so we can say that occupies its geographical location Pakistan . This country of Asia is the union of several completely different systems, so we can find the desert to the west, the mountainous north and the Indus River basin which crosses the country from north to south.
Pakistan and the Indus Valley
Located northwest of the Indian subcontinent, Pakistan occupies a large part of the Indus River valley, between the mountains and the undulating Sulaiman Indian state of Rajasthan.
The essential part of Pakistan’s territory consists of a basin subsidence depression is filled by several thousand feet in thickness of sediments that are transported along the 3180 kilometers long, has the Indus and its tributaries.
The landscape of Pakistan
It is in the north, where the mountains make an appearance in a grand and imposing in the landscape, these form an arc that consists of three different morphological zones:
The Himalayan region.
The Trans-Himalayan region.
The edge of the Iranian plateau.
Of all the high mountains that make up the Trans-Himalayan region, Pakistan belongs to the massif of Karakorum, with 8611 meters high, is the second highest peak after Mount Everest on Earth. The Himalayan region is separated from the Trans-Himalayan valley of the upper Indus.
Of the three morphological zones that make up the entire attention of Pakistan, is the edge of the Iranian plateau which has a lower height of folds being rugged mountainous north-south orientation.
The south of the country is occupied by lower Sind arid plain that stretches between the mountains Kirthar the west and the Thar Desert to the southeast.
Mountains of Pakistan
Pakistan may be considered in terms of geography as one of the highest in the world, and that is inside you can find more than 35 summits over 7,300 meters each.
It is in the north of the country particularly the impressive reliefs of the western Himalayas, whose two giant occupying Pakistani soil are the Nanga Parbat, with 8126 meters of altitude, and the Karakorum.
To the west the mountains decrease considerably, especially in this zone where Sulaiman mountains are the highest peaks, only come to reach 3,300 meters above sea level, far from spectacular figures have the Nanga Parbat and the Karakorum.
Climate of Pakistan
Pakistan’s climate is characterized by its aridity, and low average annual rainfall has different measurements have demonstrated that the rainfall is almost always less than 500 mm. In Karachi, for example less than 200 mm fall of rain during the year.
Summer temperatures are high due to the dominance of continental high pressures that are characteristic of these regions of Asia. You can register up to a maximum of 34 º C in the city of Hyderabad in Sind full arid plain.
Winter temperatures are typical of an arid tropical and subtropical climate, with generally high in much of the country. However, it will be in the higher elevations, where climatic conditions are more extreme and more change, and in winter the temperature s are very low and the perpetual snow cover many of the peaks.
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