Kacchi Plain

Kacchi Plain or Kachhi Plain is located in southern Balochistan Province of southwestern Pakistan.^[1]

History

Kacchi, located in the plain, was an administrative division of the Khanate of Kalat, a princely state that joined Pakistan in 1947.^[2]

Geography

Plain

The Kacchi Plain is an arid and vast plain with mountain ranges, located in:

• the Kachhi District and Lasbela District
• the southern part of Sibi District, extending into the Nasirabad Division
• the southern part of Dera Bugti District
• The narrow Makran plain area along the Arabian Sea coast, stretching from the Kachhi District west to the Gwadar District and border with Iran.

Mountain ranges

There are three main mountain ranges in Balochistan:

• the Makran Coastal Range (up to about 1,500 metres (4,900 ft));
• the Central Makran Range (2,000–3,000 metres (6,600–9,800 ft));
• the Siahan Range (1,000–2,000 metres (3,300–6,600 ft)).

Archaeology

Mehrgarh is one of the most important neolithic sites (7000 BCE to c. 2500 BCE) in archaeology and is located in Kacchi Plain.

See also

• Geography of Balochistan, Pakistan
• Makran

References

1. Balochistan Government
2. mperial Gazetteer of India, v. 14, p. 248.

External links

• Balochistan Government
• Agriculturists in the Kachhi Plain, Balochistan
• Nomadic Pastoralists and Sedentary Agriculturists in the Kachhi Plain, Balochistan

See also

• Mehrgarh