Shyok River#Valley

{{short description|River in India and Pakistan}}

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| name = Shyok River

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| name_etymology = "the river of death"

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| image = Shyok river Ladakh.jpg

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| image_caption = Shyok river

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| map_caption = Course of the Shyok

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| subdivision_type1 = Country

| subdivision_name1 = India, Pakistan

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| subdivision_name2 = Ladakh (India), Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan)

| subdivision_type3 = District

| subdivision_name3 = Leh (India), Ghanche (Pakistan)

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| discharge1_location= Yugo gauging station, Pakistan.{{Cite web|title=Detection of Sediment Trends Using Wavelet Transforms in the Upper Indus River |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326330815_Detection_of_Sediment_Trends_Using_Wavelet_Transforms_in_the_Upper_Indus_River |access-date=13 May 2024 }}

| discharge1_min = 859 m³/sec

| discharge1_avg = 1041 m³/sec

| discharge1_max = 1199 m³/sec

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| source1_coordinates= {{Coord|35.35|77.62}}

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| mouth = Indus River

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| river_system = Indus River

| basin_size = {{convert|33347|km2|abbr=on}}{{Cite web|title=India WRIS Geoviewer |url=https://indiawris.gov.in/wris/#/Geoviewer|access-date=30 September 2024 }}

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| tributaries_left = Chip Chap River, Galwan River, Chang Chenmo River

| tributaries_right = Nubra River, Hushe River

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File:Shyok-River.jpg

File:Maitreya Buddha - Nubra.jpg facing down the Shyok River]]

The Shyok River is a tributary of the Indus River that flows through northern Ladakh in India and enters Gilgit–Baltistan in Pakistan, spanning some {{convert|550|km|abbr=on}}.

The Shyok River originates at the Rimo Glacier. Its alignment is very unusual. Originating from the Rimo glacier, it flows in a southeasterly direction and, joining the Pangong Range, it takes a northwestern turn, flowing parallel to its previous path. Shyok Valley widens at the confluence with the Nubra River but suddenly turns into a narrow gorge near Yagulung ({{coord|34.77|77.14}}), continuing through Bogdang, Turtuk{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch-stories/turtuk-the-last-village-on-the-india-pak-border-is-where-the-clich-s-stop-and-fantasies-begin/article1-1344873.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150515013648/http://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch-stories/turtuk-the-last-village-on-the-india-pak-border-is-where-the-clich-s-stop-and-fantasies-begin/article1-1344873.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 May 2015|title=Turtuk, the village on the India-Pak border, is where the clichés stop and fantasies begin}} and Tyakshi before crossing into Baltistan. The valley again widens near its Saltoro River junction at Ghursay. The river joins the Indus at Keris, east of the town of Skardu.[http://wikimapia.org/3720519/Keris Aerial view of river junction]{{cite book |title= Pakistan and the Karakoram Highway |series= Lonely Planet Regional Guides |last=Bennett-Jones |first= Owen |author2=Brown, Lindsay |author3=Mock, John |date=1 September 2004|publisher= Lonely Planet Publications|isbn= 978-0-86442-709-0|edition=6th Revised| page=306 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Bu4yHImhtIYC&pg=PA306 |access-date=2009-08-26}}

The Nubra River, originating from the Siachen glacier, also behaves like the Shyok. Before Diskit, the southeasterly flowing Nubra takes a northwest turn on meeting the river Shyok. The similarity in the courses of these two important rivers probably indicates a series of Paleolithic fault lines trending northwest-southeast in delimiting the upper courses of the rivers.