Baralacha Pass

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✅The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) would reopen the Baralacha Pass.

✅Baralacha La is a high mountain pass in Zanskar range, connecting Lahaul district in Himachal Pradesh to Leh district in Ladakh.

✅Situated along the Leh–Manali Highway, it acts as a water-divide between the Bhaga river and the Yunam river.

✅Bhaga river, a tributary of the Chenab river, originates from Surya taal lake, which is situated a few of kms from the pass towards Manali.

✅Chandra, a major tributary of the Chenab River, also originates from a glacier in this region.

✅The native name of Chenab, "Chandrabhaga", represents the union of Chandra and Bhaga rivers downstream.