Nara Canal

Nara Canal originates from Sukkur Barrage, Eastern bank of Indus River and runs through the Thar Desert. See also this satellite image.
Vedic and present-day Gagghar-Hakra river-course, with Aryavarta/Kuru Kingdom, dried-up Harappan Hakkra course, and pre-Harappan paleochannel as proposed by Clift et al. (2012).[note 1]
1 = ancient river
2 = today's river
3 = today's Thar desert
4 = ancient shore
5 = today's shore
6 = today's town
7 = dried-up Harappan Hakkra course, and pre-Harappan Sutlej paleochannels Clift et al. (2012).

The Nara Canal is a deepened delta channel of the Indus River in Sindh province, Pakistan. It was built as an excavated channel stemming off the left bank of the Indus River to join the course of the old Nara River,[web 1][1] a tributary c.q. paleochannel of the Indus which received water from the Ghaggar-Hakra until the Hakra dried-up, early 2nd millennium BCE.


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  1. ^ Rehman 2001.