Pamir National Park
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How it came to be
Tajik National Park covers almost all of the Pamirs, the third-highest mountain system in the world after the Himalaya and Karakoram. The ranges raised by the collision of the Indian-Australian and Eurasian plates radiate out from here.
After surveys from 1989, a government decision on 20 July 1992 set aside about 12,000 square kilometres as a national park. It was enlarged in 2001 to 26,116.74 square kilometres, more than 18 percent of Tajikistan, and inscribed in 2013.
The park holds the Fedchenko Glacier, the longest outside the polar regions. Sarez Lake, about 75.8 km long, formed in 1911 when an earthquake set off a landslide that blocked the Murghab River, and the Usoi Dam it left is the highest natural dam in the world.
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