Passu
{{Short description|Pakistani village}}
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| image_caption = Tupopdan and the Hunza River, from the Karakoram Highway in Passu, Pakistan
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Passu ({{langx|ur|{{nq|پسو}}}}) is a small village in the Gojal valley of Upper Hunza in the Gilgit Baltistan region of Northern Pakistan. Located along the Karakoram Highway, Passu is a tourist destination.{{cite news |last1=Mehboob Tanoli |first1=Shazia |title=A treat for the senses |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2344431/road-trip-through-g-b-treat-for-the-senses |access-date=13 July 2024 |work=tribune.com.pk |publisher=The Express Tribune |date=20 February 2022 |language=en}} The village is known for its landscapes and views of the 7,478-meter (24,534 ft) Passu Sar mountain, the Passu Glacier, and the Passu Cathedral ({{ILL|Tupopdan|de}}) 6,106m (20,033 ft).{{fact|date=March 2025}}
Geography
Passu is situated along the Hunza River, approximately {{convert|20|km}} from Gulmit, the administrative headquarters of Upper Hunza tehsil of Gojal. It is about {{convert|147|km}} upriver from Gilgit. Passu lies in the Gojal Valley, within the subdivision of District Hunza.
Passu is located near the tongue of the Passu Glacier and just south of the Batura Glacier, which, at {{convert|56|km}}, is the seventh-longest non-polar glacier in the world and extends close to the highway.{{cite journal |last1=Gao |first1=Haifeng |last2=Zou |first2=Xiaojuan |last3=Wu |first3=Jianfeng |last4=Zhang |first4=Yinsheng |last5=Deng |first5=Xiaoya |last6=Hussain |first6=Saulat |last7=Wazir |first7=Muhammad Atif |last8=Zhu |first8=Guocai |title=Post-20th century near-steady state of Batura Glacier: observational evidence of Karakoram Anomaly |journal=Scientific Reports |date=22 January 2020 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=987 |doi=10.1038/s41598-020-57660-0 |pmid=31969603 |url=https://rdcu.be/dNFzf |access-date=13 July 2024 |language=en|pmc=6976705 }} Additionally, Borith Lake, a saline lake, located at 2,600 m above sea level, lies below the Hussaini village.{{cite journal |last1=Abbas |first1=Fakhar-i- |last2=Manzoor |first2=Madeeha |last3=Shah |first3=Imran |last4=Mian |first4=Afsar |title=Black-Legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) in Karakoram: Record on Vagrancy |journal=Journal of Bioresource Management |volume=3 |issue=4 |url=https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/jbm |access-date=13 July 2024 |publisher=Wright State University |language=en}}
Tupopdan, also known as "Passu Cones" or "Passu Cathedral," stands at {{convert|6106|m|ft|0}} and is located north of the Passu village in Gojal Valley.{{cite journal |last1=Rasheed |first1=Zeeshan |last2=Ali |first2=Muhammad Kashif |title=History And Development of Cultural Proxies of Wakhi People of Gojal-Hunza Pakistan |journal=International "Journal of Academic Research for Humanities" |date=28 December 2023 |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=239–248 |url=https://jar.bwo-researches.com/index.php/jarh/article/view/311 |access-date=13 July 2024}} It is the most photographed peak of the region.{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Alan |title=A Photo Trip Along the Ancient Silk Road |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/11/a-photo-trip-along-the-ancient-silk-road/546767/ |accessdate=18 September 2019 |work=The Atlantic |date=27 November 2017}} Nearby are the high peaks, including Pasu Sar, Shispare Sar, and Batura.
Demographics
The village is predominantly inhabited by Wakhi people, who migrated in waves from Wakhan between 1870 and 1948 to different areas of northern Pakistan. They speak Wakhi language and are homogeneously Ismaili.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/articles/2018-01-walking-grass/ |magazine=National Geographic |title=Walking Grass |date=January 2, 2018 |access-date=January 2, 2018 |first=Paul |last=Salopek |quote=The inhabitants of this austere landscape, many of them ethnic Wakhi farmers, have learned to trap this explosive blessing through the filter of grass.}}{{cite journal |last1=Benz |first1=Andreas |title=Education and Development in the Karakorum: Educational Expansion and Its Impacts in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan |journal=Erdkunde |date=2013 |volume=67 |issue=2 |pages=123–136 |doi=10.3112/erdkunde.2013.02.02 |jstor=23595393 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23595393 |access-date=13 July 2024 |language=en |issn=0014-0015|url-access=subscription }}
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