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Here, It Is Called The Dihang and It Is Joined by The Dibang, The Lohit, and Many Other. Tributaries To Form The Brahmaputra in Assam

The document discusses drainage patterns and river systems in India. It describes how the major rivers in India can be divided into two groups: the Himalayan rivers including the Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra which are fed by glacial melt and experience perennial flows; and the peninsular rivers of southern India which are seasonal and receive water only from monsoon rains. It provides details on the courses and basins of key rivers such as the Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna, and Kaveri before briefly mentioning the presence of lakes in India.

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Here, It Is Called The Dihang and It Is Joined by The Dibang, The Lohit, and Many Other. Tributaries To Form The Brahmaputra in Assam

The document discusses drainage patterns and river systems in India. It describes how the major rivers in India can be divided into two groups: the Himalayan rivers including the Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra which are fed by glacial melt and experience perennial flows; and the peninsular rivers of southern India which are seasonal and receive water only from monsoon rains. It provides details on the courses and basins of key rivers such as the Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna, and Kaveri before briefly mentioning the presence of lakes in India.

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Drainage

The drainage describes the river system of a particular place


The area drained by the single river is called the drainage basin
A up land divide the two drainage is called water divide
Indian rivers are controlled by the relief features of india
The indian rivers are divided as two parts as
Himalayan rivers and
The peninsular rivers
All the Himalayan rivers are perennial means in winter it get water from the
rain and in summer it get its water from the snow of the Himalayas
All the himalayan rivers has long course
The major Himalayan rivers are Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra
In this the indus is the lonest and come In first but it main parts are all in
Pakistan
Only 20% of the indus water can be used by india
It rises in debet near the lake Mansarowar and it enters india in kashmir in
ladakh
And here it gets lot of tributaries
The Satluj, the Beas, the Ravi, the Chenab and the Jhelum join together to
enter the Indus near Mithankot in Pakistan.
In Karachi it merge with Arabian sea
Its total length is 2900 km
In india the river parts are Kashmir, Punjab, and himachal Pradesh
By the indus water treaty in 1960 india can take only 20% of water
The Ganga river system
The headwaters of ganga is from Gangotri glacier and it is called as the
Bhagirathi.
It joined by alaknanda in uattarakhand and in Haridwar it emerges to the
plains
The ganga is joined by many rivers from Yamuna, Ghaghara, Gandak and kosi
The Chambal, the betwa and the sun are the some rivers from the from
peninsular but these rivers not carry much water
The river flows in the west Bengal (Farakka) this is the northmost point of the
gangathe Bhagirathi- Hooghly is flows to bay of Bengal and the main river
flows to the bangladesh and merges with brahmabuthra flows in bay of
Bengal and this delta is called as the Sundarban delta
The ganga flows in india about 2500 km
The Brahmaputra river system
It rises from the Mansarowar lake in the Tibet
It slightly longer than the indus
It flows parallel to the Himalayas .When it reach the Namcha barwa takes u
turn and enter into india from the Arunachl Pradesh Here, it is called the
Dihang and it is joined by the Dibang, the Lohit, and many other. tributaries to
form the Brahmaputra in Assam.

From outside of India it brings very small amount of the water and it get the
main water from india because of its rainy places
The peninsular River
All the peninsular rivers are seasonal rivers because these rivers are all get
water from rain only in summer season it get only little amount of water
The most of the rivers originated from the western ghats
All these rivers are small in length than the Himalayan rivers
These rivers mainly merge with the bay of Bengal
The Narmada Basin
This river rises from the amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh
Due to faulting the river goes towards the west side
The Narmada makes lot of picturesque locations like the marble rocks near
Jabalpur and dhuadhar falls
This basin covers Gujrat and Madhya Pradesh
The Tapi basin
The Tapi rises from the Sathpura hills and it flows parallel with Narmadha and
the this basin covers the madhaya Pradesh, gujrat and Maharashtria
The Godavari basin
The Godavari rises the in the district of the nasik in western ghats
And this is the larest peninsular river and it basin is also the largest in south
and it merges in the bay of Bengal
Its basin is in Maharastira, odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh
Because of its length it is known as the dakshin ganga
The mahanadhi basin
The mahanadhi is rises from the Chhattisgarh and it is flows from the odisha
and reach bay of Bengal
It runs about 860km
And the drainage basin shared by Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and
odisha
The Krishna basin
The krishana is rises from mahabaleshwar and it flows about 1400 km, it
drainage basin shared by Andhra, Karnataka, Maharashtra.
The kaveri basin
The kaveri rises from the Brahmagiri in the western ghats and it merges in
the bay of the Bengal
Total river flows about 760 km
The main tributaries are amaravathi, kabini, Bhavani, hemavati
Its basins shared by kerala, Karnataka and tamil nadu
Lakes
India has many lakes
These differ from the

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