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Hazara Waterfalls

series of waterfalls in Haripur District, Pakistan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ136804833 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hazara Waterfalls (Urdu: ہزارہ آبشار جب وادی) are a group of eight waterfalls located in the Jab Valley of Haripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The waterfalls were discovered in 2021 by Hassan Nisar, through the use of a drone.

Geography

The Hazara Waterfalls are situated in the mountainous Jab Valley of Haripur District, approximately 25 kilometres from Haripur city and about 60–80 kilometres from Islamabad.

The falls include eight distinct cascades of varying height and flow. Some are surrounded by rock formations, while others form natural pools that attract visitors.

Editorial summary

“Hazara Waterfalls” enters the record as series of waterfalls in Haripur District, Pakistan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hazara, Waterfalls and series can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hazara, Waterfalls and series.
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“Hazara Waterfalls” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hazara, Waterfalls and series provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q136804833. Authority coordinates are 33.867, 73.002. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hazara Waterfalls” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.