Payzawat

Payzawat lies east of Kashgar on the western fringe of the Taklamakan. Its irrigated oasis occupies the plain between rivers descending from the Tian Shan and the desert beyond. The name appears in Qing documents, when the district was governed from Kashgar. Fields and orchards depended on channels that brought water across the dry plain, allowing communities to cultivate land at the edge of the sands.