Lake · Gilgit-Baltistan

Lower Kachura Lake

2,240 m7,349 ft

Area: 0.05 km²
Tonight: -4°CPartly cloudy · Wind 9 km/h NW

Lower Kachura Lake is a lake at 2,240 m above sea level in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, 0.05 km² in area and 0.3 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 2,240 m
Length: 0.3 km
Shoreline: 0.9 km

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Lake

Lower Kachura Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 0.9 km≈15 min to walk around

3D map

Lower Kachura Lake 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Lower Kachura Lake terrain and contours

50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lower Kachura Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Lower Kachura Lake weather

Today · Fair · -4 / 9°C (25 / 48°F) · Wind 9 km/h NW

Lower Kachura Lake forecast for about 2,240 m.

Today-4°9°–9 km/h NW
Sun-3°7°3.9 mm8 km/h NW
Mon-3°8°0.7 mm8 km/h W
Tue0°6°0.3 mm5 km/h NW
Wed2°8°–5 km/h N
Thu0°11°0.6 mm6 km/h N
Fri0°10°–6 km/h N
Sat1°10°0.6 mm6 km/h W
Sun0°10°0.2 mm5 km/h W

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

47.8%

Moderate, 15–30°

21.5%

Steep, 30–45°

19.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

11.6%

Steeper than 30°: 30.6% of the 16 km² view
Relief in view: 1,074 m low point 2,154 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 50.9%Grassland 20.0%Trees 14.2%Water 7.3%Cropland 6.4%Built-up 1.1%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Where it sits

Where Lower Kachura Lake sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Astore Valley3,513 m53 km SW

Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGLower Kachura Lake satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-29.

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GIS & GPS

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-29)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Panorama: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · Wikipedia