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{{Short description|Pakistani village}}
{{Use Pakistani English|date=July 2024}}
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'''Passu''' ({{langx|ur|{{nq|پسو}}}}) is a small village in the [[Gojal|Gojal valley]] of Upper [[Hunza Valley|Hunza]] in the [[Gilgit Baltistan]] region of [[Northern Pakistan]]. Located along the [[Karakoram Highway]], Passu is a tourist destination.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mehboob Tanoli |first1=Shazia |title=A treat for the senses |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2344431/road-trip-through-g-b-treat-for-the-senses |access-date=13 July 2024 |work=tribune.com.pk |publisher=The Express Tribune |date=20 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref> The village is known for its landscapes and views of the 7,478-meter (24,534&nbsp;ft) [[Passu Sar]] mountain, the [[Passu Glacier]], and the ''Passu Cathedral'' ([[Tupopdan]]) 6,106&nbsp;m (20,033&nbsp;ft).{{citation needed|date=March 2025}}

== Geography ==
Passu is situated along the [[Hunza River]], approximately {{convert|20|km}} from [[Gulmit]], the  administrative headquarters of Upper Hunza [[tehsil]] of [[Gojal]]. It is about {{convert|147|km}} upriver from [[Gilgit]]. Passu lies in the Gojal Valley, within the subdivision of [[Hunza District|District Hunza]].

Passu is located near the tongue of the [[Passu Glacier]] and just south of the [[Batura Glacier]], which, at {{convert|56|km}}, is the seventh-longest non-polar glacier in the world and extends close to the highway.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gao |first1=Haifeng |last2=Zou |first2=Xiaojuan |last3=Wu |first3=Jianfeng |last4=Zhang |first4=Yinsheng |last5=Deng |first5=Xiaoya |last6=Hussain |first6=Saulat |last7=Wazir |first7=Muhammad Atif |last8=Zhu |first8=Guocai |title=Post-20th century near-steady state of Batura Glacier: observational evidence of Karakoram Anomaly |journal=Scientific Reports |date=22 January 2020 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=987 |doi=10.1038/s41598-020-57660-0 |pmid=31969603 |url=https://rdcu.be/dNFzf |access-date=13 July 2024 |language=en|pmc=6976705 }}</ref> Additionally, [[Borith Lake]], a saline lake, located at 2,600 m above sea level, lies below the [[Gojal Tehsil#Hussaini|Hussaini]] village.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Abbas |first1=Fakhar-i- |last2=Manzoor |first2=Madeeha |last3=Shah |first3=Imran |last4=Mian |first4=Afsar |title=Black-Legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) in Karakoram: Record on Vagrancy |journal=Journal of Bioresource Management |volume=3 |issue=4 |url=https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/jbm |access-date=13 July 2024 |publisher=Wright State University |language=en}}</ref>

Tupopdan, also known as "Passu Cones" or "Passu Cathedral," stands at {{convert|6106|m|ft|0}} and is located north of the Passu village in [[Gojal Valley]].<ref name=Wakhi>{{cite journal |last1=Rasheed |first1=Zeeshan |last2=Ali |first2=Muhammad Kashif |title=History And Development of Cultural Proxies of Wakhi People of Gojal-Hunza Pakistan |journal=International "Journal of Academic Research for Humanities" |date=28 December 2023 |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=239–248 |url=https://jar.bwo-researches.com/index.php/jarh/article/view/311 |access-date=13 July 2024}}</ref> It is the most photographed peak of the region.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Alan |title=A Photo Trip Along the Ancient Silk Road |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/11/a-photo-trip-along-the-ancient-silk-road/546767/ |accessdate=18 September 2019 |work=[[The Atlantic]] |date=27 November 2017}}</ref> Nearby are the high peaks, including [[Pasu Sar]], [[Shispare Sar]], and [[Batura]].

== Demographics ==
The village is predominantly inhabited by [[Wakhi people]], who migrated in waves from [[Wakhan]] between 1870 and 1948 to different areas of northern Pakistan.<ref name=Wakhi/> They speak [[Wakhi language]] and are homogeneously [[Isma'ilism|Ismaili]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/articles/2018-01-walking-grass/ |magazine=[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]] |title=Walking Grass |date=January 2, 2018 |access-date=January 2, 2018 |first=Paul |last=Salopek |quote=The inhabitants of this austere landscape, many of them ethnic Wakhi farmers, have learned to trap this explosive blessing through the filter of grass.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Benz |first1=Andreas |title=Education and Development in the Karakorum: Educational Expansion and Its Impacts in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan |journal=Erdkunde |date=2013 |volume=67 |issue=2 |pages=123–136 |doi=10.3112/erdkunde.2013.02.02 |jstor=23595393 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23595393 |access-date=13 July 2024 |language=en |issn=0014-0015|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Khuramabad]]

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:Populated places in Hunza District]]

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