Chahar dara District
Char Dara District (also known as Chahar Dara, Chahar Darreh or Char Darreh) is one of the seven districts in Kunduz Province in northern Afghanistan. It is situated in the south-west part of Kunduz Province and has borders with Qalay-I-Zal District to the north-west, Kunduz District to the north-east, Ali Abad District to the south-east, Baghlan Province to the south and Samangan Province to the south-west.
The district center is the village of Char Dara (also: Cardara; Ribat), which is located at 36°41′36″N 68°48′05″E / 36.6933°N 68.8014°E at an altitude of 376 meters about five miles (eight kilometers) south-west of Kunduz.
The population of Char Dara District is 65,100 (2006), accounting for approximately 8% of the population of Kunduz Province. Its ethnic make-up is 55% Pashtun, 25% Tajik, 12% Uzbek and 8% Turkmen. Most of this population lives in villages or farms in the north-west portion of the district along the south-west bank of the Kunduz River. This land is cultivated and accounts for approximately 15% of the area of the Char Dara District. The remaining land in the district to the south-west comprises desert highlands that are mostly uninhabitable.
The Kunduz River valley is the dominant terrain feature in Kunduz Province, and the river forms a natural north-eastern boundary between Char Dara District and Kunduz District. The river, along with a major tributary and derivative canals provide irrigation to the single crop cultivation fields that dominate land usage in the north-eastern portion of Char Dara District. The district also has some dual crop fields. 30%pashto
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