Kachura Lake

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The Kachora Tso Lakes (Urdu) are three lakes in the Skardu District of Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan. The lakes, at 2,500 metres (8, 200 ft) in elevation, are Foroq Tso (Upper Kachura Lake) and Lower Kachura Lake. The latter is also known as Shangrila Lake and is within a tourist resort named Shangrila Resort outside the town of Skardu. Another lake called Zambakha Tso (Lake) is situated in the small village Zambakha adjacent to Shangri-la. The lakes are in the Karakoram mountain range of the western Himalayas, the greater Baltistan Region, and in the Indus River basin.

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