Skakjung

Skakjung or Kokzhung[1][a] is 45–kilometer long pasture land in Indus River valley in Southern Ladakh.

The Skakung pasture land can be used year-round because it rarely snows in the Indus Valley.

Due to the different perception of the border India and China and continuing Chinese incursions in Chushul, Chumur, Dungti, Phobrang, and Demchok has adversely affected the life of local Changpa nomadic herders.

[4] Chushul Councillor Konchok Stanzin said, "Livelihoods of locals have been taken away in the name of buffer zones and patrolling points.

The Indus valley here is about four miles wide, and sandy with a thin layer of grass.

Kokzhung area in a map of Jammu and Kashmir by Frederic Drew , 1875
Changpa Nomad of Ladakh.
Skakjung, in western part of Demchok sector , is on the right bank of Indus River, north of Koyul Ridge , south of Kailash Range , southwest of Chang La pass , north of Kigunaru River , and Chinese-administered Dumchele trading village for cross-border trade lies in it. In the disputed Demchok sector between China and India, the Chinese claim line on the west, the Indian claim line on the east and the Line of Actual Control in the middle.