ગુજરાતની નદીઓ (Rivers of Gujarat)

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Useful Information and MAP of All Rivers of Gujarat

Here you can find a some amazing and some useful information about popular rivers, which is located in Gujarat and plays an important role as a source of water. You can find all information separately in many blogs and website but here you can get all useful information of rivers in single article which is may be helpful for you.

Narmada (Biggest or Largest River in Gujarat)

• River Length- 3212 KM
• River Origin- Amarkantak, MP
• River End at- Khambhat, Gujarat
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 97410
• Primitive Name- Rewa

The Narmada River, also known as the main waterway in central India, has been a significant route between the Middle Eastern Ocean and the Ganga waterway valley. The stream was called the Narmada by the Greek geographer Ptolemy of the second century CE.

The Narmada rises to an elevation of about 1,080 meters in the Maikala Reach in East Madhya Pradesh state. It initially follows a complex course on the slopes near Mandla and then turns northwest to pass the city of Jabalpur. Narmada is the largest river in Gujarat.

There it turns southwest and then enters the underlying box between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges at the Marble Rocks Crevasse. Turning increasingly towards the west, the stream moves into Madhya Pradesh, until it enters the state of Gujarat. Narmada enters the Gulf of Khambhat through a 21 km wide channel below Bharuch.

This river enters Gujarat near Bharuch and the length of this river in Gujarat is about 1,312 km. Narmada is the largest river of Gujarat. Thus the river Narmada completes its course and merges into the sea. Narmada is considered the holiest river after Ganga according to Hindu culture.

Sabarmati (Longest River in Gujarat)

• River Length- 371 KM (321 KM in Gujarat)
• River Origin- Arvalli Hills, Rajasthan
• River End at- Khambhat, Gujarat
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 21674
• Primitive Name- Khopalani Khadi

The Sabarmati River is one of the significant western tributaries of India, along with the Narmada and the Tapi River, which originates in the Aravalli Mountains in Rajasthan and then travels for 371 km. Finally, it is found in the Arabian Sea near the Gulf of Khambhat in Gujarat. 48 km of the total flow length of this river is in Rajasthan, while the remaining 323 km is in Gujarat.

The Sabarmati originates from the Aravalli slopes at an altitude of 762 meters near Tepur, a town in the Udaipur region of Rajasthan. which flows in a generally south-westerly course in Rajasthan and enters the state of Gujarat. Sabarmati is the longest river in Gujarat.

The Sabarmati in Gujarat passes through the Dharoi Ghat, where the Hathmati River joins its left bank, a significant feeder, about 170 km from its source.

Moving in a south western direction, the river’s waterway passes through Ahmedabad and about 65 km downstream, another important feeder, the Vatrak, joins its left bank, flowing for a further distance of 68 km, the stream flows towards Khambhat in the middle. where it merges into the Gulf of Khambhat, which lies near Dholka.

Apart from this, the city of Ahmedabad has a river front built around the Sabarmati river, which has developed as a tourist destination. There are many parks and bridges. This river is also considered as the main source for drinking and irrigation for the people of Gujarat.

Tapi

• River Length- 724 KM
• River Origin- Betul, MP
• River End at- Khmbhat Khadi, Surat, Gujarat
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 65145
• Primitive Name- Daughter of Sun

Tapti Stream, Tapti additionally spelled Tapi, waterway in focal India, ascending in the Gawilgarh Slopes of the focal Deccan level in south-focal Madhya Pradesh state. It streams toward the west between two spikes of the Satpura Reach, across the Jalgaon level district in Maharashtra state, and through the plain of Surat in Gujarat state to the Bay of Khambhat (a channel of the Middle Eastern Ocean).

It has an absolute length of around 435 miles (700 km) and channels a territory of 25,200 square miles (65,300 square km). For the last 32 miles (51 km) it is flowing yet is traversable by little vessels. The port of Swally Opening, at the stream’s mouth, notable in Old English Portuguese pilgrim history, is presently abandoned, having gotten silted up.

The Tapti streams generally corresponding to the more Narmada Waterway toward the north, from which it is isolated by the primary piece of the Satpura Reach. The two stream valleys and the interceding range structure the regular obstruction among northern and peninsular India. The Tapti Stream’s three significant feeders the Purna, Girna, and Panjhra stream from the south in Maharashtra state.

The bowl stretches out over conditions of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat having a territory of 65,145 Sq.km with a greatest length and width of 534 and 196 km. It lies between 72°33′ to 78°17′ east longitudes and 20°9′ to 21°50′ north scopes. Arranged in the Deccan level, the bowl is limited by the Satpura range on the north, by the Mahadev slopes on the east, by the Ajanta Reach and the Satmala slopes on the south and by the Bedouin Ocean on the west.

The bumpy locale of the bowl is all around forested while the fields are expansive and ripe territories appropriate for development. The Tapi is the second biggest toward the west depleting stream of the Promontory.

It starts close to Multai hold woodland in Betul area of Madhya Pradesh at a height of 752 m. The all out length of the stream from source to outfall into the Middle Eastern Ocean is 724 km and its significant feeders are the Suki, the Gomai, the Arunavati and the Aner which goes along with it from right, and those joining from left are the Vaghur, the Amravati, the Buray, the Panjhra, the Bori, the Girna, the Purna, the Mona and the Sipna.

The significant piece of bowl is covered with agribusiness bookkeeping to 66.19% of the complete zone. 2.99% of the bowl is covered by water bodies. The bowl spreads more than 18 parliamentary supporters (2009) including 12 of Maharashtra, 3 of Gujarat and 3 of Madhya Pradesh.

Mahi

• River Length- 583 KM
• River Origin- Vidhyanchal Hills
• River End at- Khambhat Khadi, Gujarat
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 34842
• Primitive Name- No

The Mahi is a stream in western India. It ascends in Madhya Pradesh and, in the wake of coursing through the Vagad locale of Rajasthan, enters Gujarat and streams into the Bedouin Ocean. It is one of the generally scarcely any west-streaming waterways in India, close by the endorheic Luni Waterway, the Sabarmati Waterway, the Tapti Stream and the Narmada Waterway. Most peninsular waterways in India stream toward the east into the Inlet of Bengal or toward the north into the Ganges Waterway.

It has given its name to the Mahi Kantha office of Bombay, and furthermore to the mehwasis, ravaging highlanders frequently referenced in Middle Eastern annals. The specific situation of Mahi Waterway birthplace is Minda Town, which is arranged in Dhar locale Madhya Pradesh. Mahi 583 KM and more longest rivers of Gujarat.

Mahi Waterway, stream in western India. It ascends in the western Vindhya Reach, only south of Sardarpur, and streams toward the north through Madhya Pradesh state. Turning northwest, it enters Rajasthan state and afterward goes southwest to move through Gujarat state through the north of Vadodara city edges and enters the ocean by a wide estuary before Khambhat after around a 360-mile (580-km) course.

The residue brought somewhere around the Mahi has added to the shallowing of the Inlet of Khambhat and the surrender of its once-prosperous ports. The riverbed lies impressively lower than the land level and is of little use for water system.

The stream Mahi is venerated by numerous individuals and has numerous sanctuaries and spots of love along its shore. It is famously depicted as Mahisagar because of the boundlessness of the waterway. The recently framed Mahisagar region in Gujarat gets its name from this devout stream. This waterway crosses the Jungle of Malignant growth twice.

Mahi Bajaj Sagar Dam is a dam across the Mahi Stream. It is arranged 16 kilometers from Banswara town in Banswara region Rajasthan, India. The dam was built somewhere in the range of 1972 and 1983 for the motivations behind hydroelectric force age and water supply.

It is the second-biggest dam in Rajasthan. It is named after Shri Jamnala Bajaj. It has numerous crocodiles and turtles. There are numerous islands inside the catchment territory of the dam, so Banswara additionally called famously called as “City of Hundred Islands”. The dam is effectively open by street. The dam has an introduced limit of 140 MW.

The Mahi waterway streaming into the Inlet of Khambhat is very nearly annihilation because of contamination and saltiness. Fisherfolk and non legislative associations of Vadodara, Gujarat, fault the development of bunds on the Mahi by the Vadodara Metropolitan Organization for the circumstance.

Banas

• River Length- 266 KM
• River Origin- Arvalli Hils
• River End at- Kutch Small Desert
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 8674
• Primitive Name- NO

The Banas is a waterway which lies altogether inside the territory of Rajasthan in western India. It is a feeder of the Chambal Waterway, itself a feeder of the Yamuna, which thusly converges into the Ganga. The Banas is around 512 kilometers long. Banas is one of the longest rivers of gujarat.

The name “Banaas” in a real sense deciphers as “woods trust” signifying “Any desire for the-backwoods” or ‘Van Ki Aasha.’ The waterway begins in the Veron ka Math arranged in Khamnor Slopes of the Aravalli Reach, around 5 km from Kumbhalgarh in Rajsamand region. It streams upper east through the Mewar locale of Rajasthan, at that point across Hadavati prior to meeting the Chambal close to the town of Rameshwar in Sawai Madhopur Region.

The Banas channels a bowl of 45,833 km², and lies altogether inside Rajasthan. It depletes the east slant of the focal bit of the Aravalli Reach, and the bowl incorporates all or some portion of Ajmer, Bhilwara, Bundi, Chittorgarh, Dausa, Jaipur, Pali, Rajsamand, Sawai Madhopur, Sirohi, Tonk, and Udaipur areas. The urban areas of Nathdwara, Jahazpur, and Tonk lie on the stream. Significant feeders incorporate the correct bank feeders of Berach and Menali and the left bank feeders of Kothari, Khari, Dai, Dheel Waterway, Sohadara Stream, Morel and Kalisil.

The Banas is an occasional waterway that evaporates throughout the late spring, yet it is regardless utilized for water system. The Bisalpur-Jaipur project, dam across the Banas at Deoli, around 40 km from Tonk was finished by the Public authority of Rajasthan in 2009 and it gives drinking water from the Banas to Jaipur city.

Shetrunji

• River Length- 227 KM
• River Origin- Gir, junagadh
• River End at- Khambhat Bay
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 5636
• Primitive Name- No

It rises upper east of the Gir Slopes, close to Dhari in Amreli locale. Its course starts east-upper east along a lineament which runs corresponding to the Narmada Shortcoming, passes north of Palitana’s slopes, Shatrunjaya, at that point a southeasterly way past Talaja Slope, through a landmass, prior to arriving at the Bay of Cambay, roughly 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Goapnath Point.

It has two mouths, one arranged roughly 7.2 km north of the point, and the other being an extra 2.4 km toward the north. Arranged 7.2 km toward the east of the stream’s mouth is Sultanpur Sandbar. This one of the most popular rivers of Gujarat Saurashtra.

Shetrunji’s bowl has a most extreme length of 227 kilometers. The complete catchment territory of the bowl is 5,636 square kilometers. Alongside the Ghelo, Kalubhar, and the Vagad Streams, the Shetrunji is a key waterway of the region, and the second biggest waterway in the area of Saurashtra. The salty stream, Gagadio, joins the Shetrunji around 2 kilometers from Krankach. Khodiyar Mata is an around 50 feet or 15 meter cascade close to Dhari. The geography is a blend of slopes and fields.

The Palitana dam was inherent 1959 across the waterway at Nani Rajasthali and addresses Shetrunji’s water system conspire. This plan is intended to give stream water to a development zone of 56,000–86,000 sections of land of land. Shetrunji supplies drinking water to Bhavnagar. A little port is situated at Sultanpur.

Palitana is arranged close to the waterway, filling in as the base town for the slopes of Shatrunjaya whereupon are the Palitana sanctuaries, a significant spot of love for Jains.A gathering of Derasars are situated at the banks of the stream close to the Shatrunjaya slopes.

A masjid is arranged between the Shetrunji and the Natadia Stream, while a hallowed place of Khodiar Mata is arranged inside the Shetrunji’s lower reaches.[citation needed] Center to Upper Paleolithic locales have been found along the waterway.

Archeological investigation along the stream has noted 22 settlements which date around first century BCE to first century CE. The locales included nine fishing towns, a blended use fishingagrarian town, a blended utilize agrarian-salt-cultivating town, just as a territorial place. Of these, Padri town dates to the Harappan time frame, while Hathab town was the biggest in the lower stream valley.

Bhadar

• River Length- 200 KM
• River Origin- Jasdan, Rajkot
• River End at- Arabian Sea
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 7094
• Primitive Name-No

Sukhbhadar

• River Length- 194 KM
• River Origin- Vadi Hills
• River End at-
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 2118
• Primitive Name- No

Keri

• River Length- 183 KM
• River Origin- Hindod Hills
• River End at-
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 560
• Primitive Name- no

Purna

• River Length- 180 KM
• River Origin- Saputara Hills
• River End at-
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 2431
• Primitive Name- no

Rupen

• River Length- 156 KM
• River Origin- Taranga Hills
• River End at-
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 2500
• Primitive Name- no

Ambika

• River Length- 136 KM
• River Origin- Saputara Hills
• River End at-
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 2715
• Primitive Name- no

Daman Ganga

• River Length- 131 KM
• River Origin- Sahyadri Hills
• River End at-
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 2318
• Primitive Name- no

Machhu

• River Length- 130 KM
• River Origin- Madla Hills, Jasdan, Rajkot
• River End at-
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 2515
• Primitive Name- no

Utavali

• River Length- 125 KM
• River Origin- Kaniad Hills
• River End at-
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 388
• Primitive Name- no

Ozat

• River Length- 125 KM
• River Origin- Visavadar
• River End at-
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 3185
• Primitive Name- no

Ghelo

• River Length- 118 KM
• River Origin- Jasdan, Rajkot
• River End at-
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square- 622
• Primitive Name-

Bhogavo

• River Length- 113 KM
• River Origin- Bilimora Hills
• River End at- Thoryali
• Catchment Area in Kilometer Square-
• Primitive Name- No

Other Small Rivers of Gujarat

Here you will see the names of some very small Rivers of Gujarat. Due to this river being very small, there has not been much information here, if you want to know about any of these rivers, then you can take help of Google.

1. Pushpavati River In Gujarat- Modhera to Poyda
2. Padalio- Khambhaliya
3. Kim- Spautara
4. Mindhola- Doswada, Songadh
5. Aji- Sardhara
6. Dai Minsar- Minsar
7. Auranga- Bhervi
8. Kalubhar- Chamadi
9. Und- Lodhika
10. Nilkka- Bhyimnath Mahadev, Dhandhuka
11. Raval- Gir, Junagadh
12. Machundari- Gir
13. Par- Paykhad
14. Khari- Matana Madh
15. Kolak- Saputara
16. Nagmati- Bharapar
17. Rangmati- Rampar Village
18. Saraswati- Gir Forest
19. Hiran- Gir Forest
20. Kali- Ravleshwar Village
21. Khokhra- Jaru
22. Suvi- Bhadargadh Village

Rivers Map Of Gujarat

How Many Revers in Gujarat

If you check on Wikipedia you can see total 63 rivers located in Gujarat but as per the Gov of India 17 Major rivers in Gujarat and 71 small and medium rivers in Saurashtra and 91 small rivers in Kutch Gujarat. Total 185 rivers present in Gujarat. The most rivers are present in Katch, but it is very small and flows only in the rainy season, but in the other season it remains dry and there is no water in them.

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