Lakhpat

Lakhpat stands beside the Kori Creek at the western edge of the Great Rann of Kutch. Its high stone walls and bastions guarded a frontier facing Sindh, where waterways and salt marshes change with the seasons. The Kutch general Fateh Muhammad fortified the town around the beginning of the nineteenth century. An earthquake in 1819 altered the surrounding land and watercourses, flooding and lowering areas near the creek and changing the conditions that had supported the port.