Cholistan is a desert located in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. It continues as the Thar Desert in India. The Punjab/ پنجاب province of Pakistan is part of the larger Punjab region. ... The Thar Desert (also known as the Great Indian Desert) is a desert mainly Goo goo gaa gaa. ...
The dry bed of the Hakra River runs through the area, along which many settlements of the Indus Valley Civilisation have been found. The Hakra river is believed to be the remnant of ancient Sarasvati river. The Hakra is the dried-out channel of a river in Pakistan that until about 2000 BC - 1500 BC was the continuation of the Ghaggar River in India. ... The Indus Valley Civilization existed along the Indus River and the Vedic Sarasvati River in present-day Pakistan. ... The Hindu Vedas mention a river named Sarasvatī. In Sanskrit saras means a pool or water body, and vatī (from vnt-ī, the female form of the -vant suffix) means she having lots of pools. Sarasvati was the biggest and most important of the seven holy rivers of the Rig Veda. ...
Cholistan, is an extension of the Great Indian Desert, which includes the Thar Desert in Sindh province of Pakistan and Rajasthan desert in India.
Greater Cholistan is the name given to the southern part of the desert, which consists mostly of sand dunes, ridges and depressions.
The climate of Cholistan is arid (see Table 1), a sub-tropical continent type characterized by low and sporadic rainfall, high temperature, low relative humidity and a high rate of evaporation and strong summer winds.
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