Mashkāi

Mashkai lies in a valley at the eastern end of the Makran mountain country. Its river waters cultivated land before joining the wider drainage of the Hingol, which cuts south through the ranges towards the Arabian Sea. Flow is seasonal, but stretches of the upper and middle river retain water and can be used for irrigation. The valley is enclosed by dry hills, part of the rugged system of parallel ridges that separates the inland plains of Baluchistan from its coast.