The most populated and big valley in Ghanche District in North Pakistan.
But I would not be seeking a fertile and populated valley, and certainly not a mountaintop on which a castle or church or monastery had been built.
It is ca. 60 km long, and thus one of the longest as well as least populated valleys of the Austrian Alps.
The Ducks follow the dead man's path into the mists and after days of effort they find a populated valley in the Mountains, hidden by the mists.
Long north-south populated valleys dominate the land, each separated by a wilderness of mountains penetrable only on foot.
Smaller populated valleys include Nochixtlan, Nejapa, Cuicatlan and Tuxtepec.
North of Petrivka the line runs eastwards and then after Nyznoteple southwards in order not to cross a populated valley.
Since the colonization of Chile the country had its economy oriented towards cattle farming, mining and later on agriculture with the ports serving rather as access point to the relatively dense populated central valley than commercial hubs.
Uzbin Valley is the most populated valley of the sector, with 30,000 inhabitants.
For a moment it was as though that wall of water hesitated, not deciding whether to continue on down the populated valley, or to swing over into the other gash where it could do comparatively little harm.