Geography - Rivers in India Topics

The Dudhsagar Falls is a four-tiered waterfall located on the Mandovi River on the border of the Indian states of Goa and Karnataka, plunging through the steep forested escarpments of the Western Ghats.

The Chenab River receives the Marusudar River, its largest right-bank tributary, at Bhandarkoot in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, heavily increasing its volume.

The proposed Mahanadi-Godavari canal must cut across several intervening coastal river basins and intersecting deltaic terrains of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, demanding highly complex aqueducts and siphon structures.

Both Ghataprabha and Malaprabha originate in the Western Ghats of Karnataka and flow eastward to drain into the Krishna River basin.

The Bhakra-Nangal Dam is constructed across the Sutlej River in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, anchoring a major reservoir called Gobind Sagar.

The Shimsha and Arkavati rivers originate in Karnataka and flow southward to merge as left-bank tributaries into the Cauvery river system.

The Manas-Sankosh link canal routes water from the Brahmaputra system across the narrow Siliguri Corridor (Chicken's Neck) in West Bengal to reach the Ganga mainstream.

The Chambal River joins the Yamuna River near Etawah, Uttar Pradesh. Since the Yamuna itself is a right-bank tributary of the Ganga, Chambal is part of the larger Ganga right-bank drainage architecture.

The Gokak Falls is formed by the Ghataprabha River in the Belagavi district of Karnataka, where the water takes a horse-shoe leap over a sandstone cliff.

The Shyok River originates from the Rimo glacier and flows through northern Ladakh before joining the Indus River as a key right-bank alpine tributary.