Kūh-Zibad Explained

Kūh-e Zibad. Peak Tīr Māhī
Other Name:Zeebad
Etymology:Tir has many meaning :arrow,bar,shot and also the persian month for July
Map:Iran
Location:Razavi Khorasan, Iran
Elevation M:2126
Prominence M:2557
Pronunciation:Zeebad
Coordinates:34.2396°N 58.4192°W

Kūh-Zibad (Persian: '''کوه زیبد''') its peak also called Tir Mahi[1] is a mountain in the province of Razavi Khorasan, city of Gonabad District Zibad in the eastern part of the country, 700 km east of the capital Tehran. The Peak of the Moantain is called Qole -e Tir Mahi is 2557m (8,389feet) above sea level, or 4310NaN0 above the surrounding terrain . The width at the base is 5.5 km. The terrain around the Qole-e Tir Mahi and Kuh-e zibad is mainly hilly. The highest point in the vicinity is 2775 meters above sea level, 17.7 km southeast of Qole-e Tir mahi. Around Kuh-e Zibad is very sparsely populated, with 5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Nearest society zibad, 8.5 km north of Kuh-e Zibad. The neighborhood around Kuh-e Zibad is barren with little or vegetation. In the neighborhood around the Kuh-e Zibad are unusually many named mountains and valleys. A cold steppe climate prevailing in the region. The average annual temperature in the area is 17 °C. The warmest month is July when the average temperature is 30 °C, and the coldest is January, with 1 °C. Average annual rainfall is 2110NaN0. The rainiest month is February, with an average of 580NaN0 of precipitation, and the driest is July, with 1 mm of precipitation. This mountain had been referred in some historical book such as shahnameh in Davazdah Rokhwar as the Zibad mountain and its eastern part is called black mountain or kuh Gonabad. The long mountain range is called Qohestan and it extends from Bajestan to Birjand near the border with Afghanistan. This mountain range separates south khorasan from Razavi Khorasan, part of this mountain range near Kakhk is called black mountain or kuh e gonabad.

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Sources

Article in Persian language. Parssea magazine,2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20160414080357/http://parssea.org/?p=274

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Notes and References

  1. Kūh-e Tīr Māhī