Biafo Glacier

Biafo Glacier
བིཨཕོ༹་གངས།
Map showing the location of Biafo Glacier བིཨཕོ༹་གངས།
Map showing the location of Biafo Glacier བིཨཕོ༹་གངས།
Biafo Glacier
བིཨཕོ༹་གངས།
Location in Karakoram
Map showing the location of Biafo Glacier བིཨཕོ༹་གངས།
Map showing the location of Biafo Glacier བིཨཕོ༹་གངས།
Biafo Glacier
བིཨཕོ༹་གངས།
Biafo Glacier
བིཨཕོ༹་གངས། (Gilgit Baltistan)
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Map showing the location of Biafo Glacier བིཨཕོ༹་གངས།
Biafo Glacier
བིཨཕོ༹་གངས།
Biafo Glacier
བིཨཕོ༹་གངས། (Kashmir)
Map showing the location of Biafo Glacier བིཨཕོ༹་གངས།
Map showing the location of Biafo Glacier བིཨཕོ༹་གངས།
Biafo Glacier
བིཨཕོ༹་གངས།
Biafo Glacier
བིཨཕོ༹་གངས། (Pakistan)
TypeMountain glacier
LocationKarakoram, Hispar Valley, Pakistan
Coordinates35°41′N 75°55′E / 35.683°N 75.917°E / 35.683; 75.917
Length67 kilometres (42 mi)
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The Biafo Glacier Urdu: بیافو گلیشیر) is a glacier located within the Karakoram mountain range in the Hisper valley, Nagar District of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. It extends over a considerable distance, measuring 67 kilometers (42 miles) in length, and ranks as one of the largest glaciers in the entire Karakoram range. Flowing in a south-eastern direction from the central Karakoram crest, this glacier covers a basin area spanning 853 square kilometers, of which 628 square kilometers are characterized by permanent snow and ice. The accumulation zone alone contributes to 68% of the glacier's total area.[1]

  1. ^ Hewitt, K.; Wake*, C. P.; Young, G. J.; David, C. (1989). "Hydrological Investigations at Biafo Glacier, Karakoram Range, Himalaya; an Important Source of Water for the Indus River". Annals of Glaciology. 13: 103–108. doi:10.3189/S0260305500007710. ISSN 0260-3055.