Mountains of the Valley

There are several high peaks and mountains in the region. A brief description of some important and beautiful hills is given below.

Dana Nooral: A beautiful and large mountain located on the eastern bank of Neelan stream nearly in the centre of the valley. There is a village on the top at an elevation of round about 6000 feet. The most of the population of this village belongs to the Nooral branch of Karral Tribe; due to this it is called Dana Nooral.

Siribang: It is another beautiful mountain of the Haro Valley and the highest mountain of Dist. Haripur. It is located in between the Khanpur road and Kunhad stream and covered with pine jungles. There are a few villages also on this mountain. These villages are Siribang, Jab, Kohala paean etc. The elevation of the highest peak is about 5700 feet.

Nara: The Nara Mountain is the highest one with an elevation of about 7000 feet. It is located in the northeastern corner of the valley. It is named on the Nara village.

Dubran: Last village of dist. Abbottabad in the south west corner is located on this mountain. It is a high and beautiful mountain of the region, just apposite to the Siribang. This village was the Base Camp of Karral Mujhaideen against Sikhs in 19th century in the command of the Great Sardar Hashim Khan. The whole mountain is surrounded by the beautiful forest. It is also encircled by river Haro and its tributaries, with Haro River in the South, Neelan stream in the East, Langrial nulla in the North and Kunhad stream in the west but water is hardly available on the top for the villagers. A water supply scheme of more than rupees 10 million was launched by the government but failed due to improper survey and poor management. 

It is a large mountain (about 6x8 km of area). Dubran village comprises 17 hamlets scattered across the village. It is home to around 4000 people and about 500 households. A majority of the male folk speaks Urdu. However, Hindkoh is the lingua franca of the area. Sardars (30%) and Awans (70%) are the prominent casts. Despite majority, Awans, being the tenants, used to follow decisions made by Sardars of the village.

Langrial Mountain: Another beautiful mountain in the north of Dubran along the main Lora road.

Islamabad: The old name of the village is Salwad, which was changed. It is a high and beautiful mountain with pine jungle around it, in between the two main streams of Haro River.

Nagri Hills: Located around the town of Lora in the extreme eastern end of valley. These are foot hills of Gallyat and Muree covered with forests and scattered human settlements.

Ghoragali and Makhnial Hills: Beautiful hills behind the capital of Pakistan. Covered with scattered pine and scrub forests and villages.

Sarla Mountain: Most famous mountain of the valley. This was a thick jungle of Kahoo and other scrub trees a few decades ago, full of barking deer and urials, but now there is nothing in this mountain except scattered bushes. It is located in the west of Khanpur dam.

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