Burhi Gandak River
- Burhi Gandak River originates from the western slopes of the Sumesar hills near the India-Nepal border.
- It joins the Ganga opposite Monghyr town.
- Its length is 610 km and the drainage area is 12,200 sq km.
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Inland Drainage is a river or stream that does not reach up to the sea and constitutes inland drainage.
These rivers are mostly present in the drier regions of the country like Western Rajasthan, Ladakh and Aksai Chin etc.
Gandak river
Gandak River originates in the Great Himalayan Range on the Tibet-Nepal border.
From this junction to the Indian border the river is called the Narayani.
Ganga River
Ganga River originates as Bhagirathi from the Gangotri glacier, Uttarakhand, India.
Alaknanda joins it at Devaprayag.
Pindar River joins it at Karan Prayag and Mandakini or Kali Ganga at Rudra Prayag.
The combined waters of the Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda flow in the name of the Ganga, below Devprayag.
Ponnaiyar River
Ponnaiyar River is the South Pennar River that originates in the Nandi Hills in the Chikkaballapura district of Karnataka.
It is also known as Dakshina Pinakini in Kannada and Thenpennai in Tamil.
It is one of the east-flowing peninsular rivers in India, like Godavari and Krishna.
Narmada River
Narmada River is the largest of all the west-flowing rivers of Peninsular India.
It rises from the Maikala range near the Amarkantak plateau in the Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh.
It flows through a rift valley between the Vindhyan Range on the north and the Satpura Range on the south.
Cauvery River
Cauvery River (Kaveri) originates at Talakaveri on the Brahmagiri range near Cherangala village of Kodagu (Coorg) district of Karnataka in the Western Ghats.
It is designated as “the Ganga of the South” or ‘Dakshina Ganga’.
It is one of the east-flowing peninsular rivers, like Godavari and Krishna.
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