Brahmani River

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  • Brahmani River comes into existence by the confluence of the Koel and the Sankh rivers near Rourkela in Odisha.
  • The basin is bounded in the North by the Chhotanagpur plateau, in the West and South by the Mahanadi basin and in the East by the Bay of Bengal.
  • The basin flows through Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa States and drains into the Bay of Bengal.
  • It is one of the east-flowing peninsular rivers in India, like Godavari and Krishna.
  • It has a total length of 800 km.
  • Its main tributaries are Kura, Sankhad and Tikra.
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