Tang-e Boraq (Boraq Gorge)

Tang-e Boraq (Boraq Gorge) is a small village located 15 km far from the city of Sedeh, 80 km from Eqlid and 190 km from Shiraz in Fars province. The Kor River passes through this gorge and it has shaped the current form of its stone wall over the years. 

Kor River is watered from Bakhtegan lake, which in turn, originated out of the geological erosion of Zagros. As the result of water erosion caused by the river, there is a valley with walls of 40 meters wide and nearly 100 meters in the mountain.

Finally, a waterfall emerged, the watershed of which is more than 10 meters deep. Also, a limestone karst valley has penetrated into the gorge completely covered in moss. Tang-e Boraq is hidden among the oak forests and one should find it through the paddy fields. 

Going back to Cretaceous period, dating about 140 million years ago, the rock structure of this gorge is of carbonate origin and mountains on both sides of the gorge are of limestone. Tang-e Boraq is also placed over the tourism axis of Shiraz_Doshman Ziari_Khanmin_ Tang-e Boraq _Sedeh.

There is also an ancient epigraph of two meters length, in Parthian and Sasanian scripts, in Tang-e Boraq. The inscription was included in the list of National Heritages of Iran in 1376 AH. Shapur I, the Sasanian king, the son of Artaxerxes, introduces himself and his shooting ability, in Tang-e Boraq inscription, as follows:

"This is my shooting, Baq-e Mazdayasn, Shapur Shahan

The king of Iran and Aniran (what is Not Iran), who has his face from Yazdan (God), [I] son

Baq-e Mazdayasn, Artaxerxes, the king of Iranian kings… 

We shot arrows from this stone to that stone..."