:Panjshir River

{{Short description|River in northeast Afghanistan}}

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| name = Panjshir

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| image = File:Panjsher river.jpg

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| image_caption = Panjshir Valley

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| pushpin_map_caption= Mouth of the Panjshir River in Afghanistan

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| source1 = Hindu Kush Mountains

| source1_location = Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan

| source1_coordinates= {{coord|35.6882|N|70.0871|E}}

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| mouth = Kabul River

| mouth_location = Surobi, Kabul Province, Afghanistan

| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|34|39|N|69|42|E}}

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| basin_size =12963.7 sq km

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| tributaries_right = Ghorband River

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The Panjshir River flows through the Panjshir Valley in northeastern Afghanistan, {{convert|150|km}} north of Kabul. Its main tributary is the Ghorband River which flows from the Parwan Province and joins the Panjshir River 10 km east of Charikar in Bagram District. The Panjshir River takes its source near the Anjuman Pass, flows southward through the Hindu Kush and joins the Kabul River at Surobi.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Description of Watersheds Part IV|url=http://aizon.org/Watershed%20Atlas%20of%20Afghansitan/Volume%20I/Watershed%20Atlas_Part%20IV.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=18 January 2021|website=aizon.org}}

Florentia Sale crossed this river during her captivity under Wazir Akbar Khan in 1842 during the First Anglo-Afghan War. A dam was built on the Panjshir River near Surobi in the 1950s to supply water from the Panjshir River to the Kabul River.{{cite encyclopedia| title = Pandjhir| encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia of Islam| edition = CD-ROM Edition v. 1.0| publisher = Koninklijke Brill NV| location = Leiden, The Netherlands| date = 1999}} There is just one permanent bridge on the Panjshir River that provides access to the Bagram Airport.{{Cite book|last1=Jalali|first1=Ali Ahmad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eh99I3y931MC&pg=PA161 |title=Afghan Guerrilla Warfare: In the Words of the Mjuahideen Fighters|last2=Grau|first2=Lester W.|date=2001|publisher=Voyageur Press|isbn=978-0-7603-1322-0|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Paddling in Panjshir: Afghanistan's geography attracts extreme sports buffs|url=https://nationalpost.com/travel/paddling-in-panjshir-afghanistans-geography-attracts-extreme-sports-buffs|access-date=2020-08-12|website=National Post|language=en-CA}} On 12 July 2018, a flood in Panjshir Valley killed ten people.{{Cite web|title=Story Map Journal|url=https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=e842d20e0fb74abea6d57edc785b3a78|website=www.arcgis.com|access-date=2020-06-01}}{{Cite web|title=Panjshir River|url=http://www.cawater-info.net/afghanistan/data/panjshir_e.htm|access-date=2020-07-31|website=www.cawater-info.net}}