Rivers in India
Ganga
Origin: Gangotri Glacier, Satopanth Glacier, Uttarakhand
Length: 2525 km
Discharge: Bay of Bengal
Devaprayag: Alakananda River, Bhagirathi, Saraswathi meet Ganga
Triveni Sangam at Allahabad: Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswathi
Kumbamela held every 12 years
In Bangladesh Ganges is known as Padma.
The Padma is joined by the Jamuna River the largest distributary of the Brahmaputhra
The second largest distributary of Brahmaputra is:Meghna - Padma joins the Meghna River
Yamuna
Largest tributary rinver of Ganga in northern India
Origin: Yamunotri Glacier
Length: 1376 km
Discharge: Ganga river
Taj Mahal is situating on the banks of river Yamuna.
Agra town is situating on the banks of river Yamuna
Brahmaputhra
Called as Tsangpo-Brahmaputra
Origin: Angsi Glacier, Chemayungdung Glacier, Himalayas, Tibet
Length: 2900 km
The Brahmaputra enters India in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, and it is called Siang
Island in Brahmaputra: Majuli
final part of Brhmaputhra river is called: Meghna
Kosi River: (Saptakoshi)
Origin: Sun Kosi, Arun and Tamur from Saptakoshi, Nepal
Length: 720 k.m
Sagarmatha National Park: (Nepal) established in 1976 and in 1979 it became the country's first national park.
Kosi River is known as the "Sorrow of Bihar"
Damodar:
Length: 592 k.m
Flowing across West Bengal and Jharkhand.
Sorrow of Bengal
Source: Chandwa
Mouth: Hoogly River, Bengal.
Damodar Valley Corporation: 7 july 1948 First multi purpose river valley project in independent India.
Discharge: hoogly river
Luni:
Luni is river of western Rajasthan, India.
Origin: Pushkar valley, Aravalli range near Ajmer
Dishcarge: Rann of Kutch in Gujarat
Known as Lavanavari river. It Means Salt River.
Sabarmati River:
Gujarath and Rajastan
West flowing river of Gujarath
Origin: Dhebar lake in Aravalli Range of Udaipur Dist of Rajastan
Length: 371 k.m
Discharge: Gulf of Cambay of Arabian sea
Narmada:
Called Rewa.
Fifth longest river in the Indian subcontinent.
It is the thrid longest river tht flows entirely within India after Godavari and Krishna
Known as life for Madhya Pradesh
Longest West flowing river flowing between the Satpura and Vindhya ranges.
Origin: Narmada Kund, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh
Lenght: 1312 k.m
Tapti:
One of the major rives of peninsular India. (Narmada and Mahi river).
Source: rises in the eastern Satpura Range of Madhya Pradesh
Betul district- Multai
West flowing river
length: 724 km
Source:
Godavari River:
Source: Brahmagiri mountain, Trimbak in Nashik, Maharashtra
Discharge: Bay of Bengal.
flowing to East: Bay of Bengal
Length: 1465 km
Second longest river in India after the Ganga.
Longest river in southern India
Largest city: 1, Nashik 2, Rajamundry
1964-69: Sri Ram Sagar Project (Pochampadu Project) to irrigate Adilabad, nizamabad, Karimnagar, Warangal
Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary: Andhra Pradesh, Second largest mangrove forests in India.
Mahanadi:
Source: Sihawa, Dhamtari, dandakarany, Chattisgarh, India
Length: 858km
Flows to Chattisgarh and Odisha
Hirakud Dam: Largest earth dam in the world
Discharge: false point, Odisha, Bay of Bengal
Krishna:
One of the longest rivers in central southern India.
Length: 1400 km
Source: Mahabaleswar, jor village, Satara dist, Maharashtra
Tunga and Bhadra starting from Karnataka
Flowing to west and meets: Bay of Bengal
Third longest river in india after Ganga and Godavari
Largest city: Vijayawada
Preeti Sangam: Four rivers join the Krishna at a confluence is known Lovers Meeting Point
Largest tributary of Krishna river is Tungabhadra River.
Kaveri:
Length: 765 k.m
Discharge: Grand Anicut
Origin: Talakaveri, Kodagu in Western Ghats in Karnataka
Flowing through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to Bay of Bengal
Sivanasamudra Falls on the Kaveri in 1902 was the first hydroelectric plant in Asia
Asia's first hydro electric plan built in 1902 was on the left falls and supplied power to the city of Bangalore.
Hogenakkal Falls: sometimes referred to as "Niagara of India".
Karikala Cholan: built Kallana dam or Grant Anicut is and ancient dam built across River Kaveri in Thanjavur dist. ( 2nd Century)
Pennar River:
Source: Nandi Hills in chikballapur dist, Karnataka
Destination: Andrapradesh, Bay of Bengal
Length: 597 km
Buckingham Canal is 421.55 km running parallel to the Coramandal cost of south India from Vijaywada in Andrapradesh to Villupuram district in Tamil Nadu.
Buckingham canal took shape by government's National Waterway declaration on November 2008
Vaigai:
Origin: Periyar Plateau of Western Ghats
Length: 258 km
Discharge: Palk Strait in Ramanathapuram
Periyar:
Origin: Sivagiri peaks of Sundaramala, Tamil Nadu
Length: 244 km
Aluva: Bifurcates into Marthandavarma and Mangalapuzha rivers
Manglapuzha joins Chalakudy river and empties into Lakshadweep sea at Munambam
Marthandavarma joins Cochin backwater system at varapuzha and it is connected to Lakshadweep sea at Cochin and Kodungallur
Hydro-electric projects:
Idukki dam is the largest project in Kerala lies on the Periyar. Second largest in Asia built by an India-Canada joint ventrue in 1976
Pallivasal on 1940, Chenkulam, Panniyar, Neriyamangalam and Lower Periyar.
Dams:
Bhoothathankettu, Idamalyar, Lower Periyar, Mattupetty, Anayirangal, Kundala, Ponmudi, Kallarkutti,
Idukki, Cheruthoni, Kulamavu, sengulam, Kallar, Erattayar, Mullaperiyar.
Indus River
Flowing through Pakistan
Origin: Tibetan Plateau in the vicinity of Mansarovar.
Discharge: Arabian sea
Length: 3200
Tributary rivers: Chenab, Jhelum, Ravi, Beaz and Satlej
Chenab:
River of India and Pakistan
Source: Bara Lacha pass
Discharge: Akhnoor
Length: 960 km
Water is allocated to Pakistan under the terms of Indus Waters Treaty - 1960
by Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan President Ayub Khan
Jhelum river
Flows in India and Pakistan
Largest and most western of the five rivers of Panjab Passes through Jhelum dist
Origin: Veinag spring
Mouth chenab river
Length: 725 km
Sanskrit name is : Vitasta
Battle of Hydaspes
Alexander the Great crossed the Jhelum in BC 326. and he defeated Porus
Bucephalus: Famous horse of Alexander buried in Jalalpur sharif.
Sutlej
Longest of the five reivers that flow through Punjab.
Source: Lake Rakshastal, Tibet
Discharge: Ropar
Lenght: 1000 km
Sutlaj is sometimes know as the Red River.
Water is allocated to Pakistan under the terms of Indus Waters Treaty - 1960
by Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan President Ayub Khan
Hydro electric projects on Sutlaj:
Bhakra Dam, Karcham Wangtoo Kinnaur dist- Himachal Pradesh. Nathpa Jhakri Dam-HP
Ravi
Pakistan.
Smallest of five rivers
Origin: Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, India
Length: 720 km
Beas
Origin: Beas Kund, Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh
Length: 470 k.m
Discharge: for Mandi Plain
