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Drainage Table Print

The document provides an overview of major rivers in India, detailing their origins, lengths, features, tributaries, states they flow through, and their drainage basins. Key rivers include the Indus, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Narmada, Godavari, Tapi, Kaveri, Krishna, and Mahanadi, each with unique characteristics and geographical significance. The rivers primarily drain into the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal.

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Drainage Table Print

The document provides an overview of major rivers in India, detailing their origins, lengths, features, tributaries, states they flow through, and their drainage basins. Key rivers include the Indus, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Narmada, Godavari, Tapi, Kaveri, Krishna, and Mahanadi, each with unique characteristics and geographical significance. The rivers primarily drain into the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal.

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ORIGIN FEATURES TRIBUATRIES STATES DRAIN

INDUS Tibet, near  Length -2900 Km • Zaskar  Ladakh Arabian Sea


Mansarowar  Forms beautiful gorges • Nubra  Jammu &
Lake • Shyok Kashmir
• Hunza  Himachal
• Satluj Pradesh
• Beas  Punjab
• Ravi
• Chenab
• Jhelum

GANGA The headwaters • Length -2500Km  Yamuna, Bay of Bengal


of the Ganga, • Forms beautiful gorges  Ghaghara,
called the • Forms meanders  Gandak
‘Bhagirathi’ is • Forms delta  Kosi
fed by the • Enriches the soil in Northern  Chambal
Gangotri plains for agriculture  Betwa
Glacier. • Forms Sunderban Delta  Son
BRAHMAPUTRA Tibet east of • Known as Dihang in  Dibang Bay of Bengal
Mansarowar Arunachal Pradesh and enters  Lohit
lake India through a gorge.
• In rainy season, the
river overflows its bank
causing devastation due to
floods in Assam and
Bangladesh
 Huge deposits of silt on its bed
causing the riverbed to rise
 Forms braided channel
 Forms many riverine islands
NARMADA Rises in the Picturesque Locations: Madhya Pradesh Arabian Sea
Amarkantak • The ‘Marble rocks’, near Gujarat
hills in Madhya Jabalpur where the Narmada
Pradesh. flows through a deep gorge
• The ‘Dhuadhar falls’
where the river plunges
over steep rocks
• Short tributaries and most of
these join the main stream at
right angles
GODAVARI Rises from the • Length - 1500 km.  Purna  Maharashtra Bay of Bengal
slopes of the • largest Peninsular River  Wardha Pranhita (about 50 per
Western Ghats • Largest drainage basin  Manjra cent of the basin
in the Nasik • Also known as Dakshin Ganga  Wainganga area lies in
district of because of its length  Penganga Maharashtra),
(Maharashtra) and the area it covers  Madhya Pradesh
 Odisha
 Andhra Pradesh
TAPI Satpura ranges, Flows parallel to Narmada but  Sabarmati  Madhya Pradesh Arabian Sea
in the Betul shorter in length  Mahi  Gujarat
district of  Bharathpuzha  Maharashtra
Madhya  Periyar
Pradesh

KAVERI Brahmagri Length - 760 km  Amravati  Karnataka Bay of Bengal


range of the  Bhavani  Kerala
Western Ghats  Hemavati  Tamil Nadu
 Kabini
KRISHNA Rises from a Length - 1400 km  Tungabhadra  Maharashtra Bay of Bengal
spring near  Koyana  Karnataka
Mahabaleshwar  Ghatprabha  Andhra Pradesh
 Musi
 Bhima

MAHANADI Highlands of Length – 860 km  Odisha Bay of Bengal


Chhattisgarh  Maharashtra
 Chhattisgarh
 Jharkhand

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