List of Major Rivers in India

90 per cent of India's river discharges their water into the Bay of Bengal and rest are in the Arabian Sea. The drainage systems flowing into the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal are separated by a water divide extending approximately along the Western Ghats, Aravalli and Yamuna Sutlej divide. Here, we are giving the list of Major Rivers in India for general awareness.

Nov 6, 2017, 16:23 IST

90 per cent of India's river discharges their water into the Bay of Bengal and rest are in the Arabian Sea. The drainage systems flowing into the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal are separated by a water divide extending approximately along the Western Ghats, Aravalli and Yamuna Sutlej divide. Here, we are giving the list of Major Rivers of India for general awareness.

Rivers of India

List of Major Rivers of India

Name

Source

Fall into

Ganga

Combined Sources

Bay of Bengal

Satluj

Lake Rakshastal in Tibet

Chenab

Indus

Glacier near Bokhar Chu in the Tibetan region of the Kailash Mountain range

Arabian Sea

Ravi

Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh

Chenab

Beas

Beas Kund, Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh

Satluj

Jhelum

Verinag Spring (Pir Panjal Range)

Chenab

Yamuna

Yamunotri, Champasar Glacier

Ganga

Chambal

Singar Chouri (Mhow in Indore District, Madhya Pradesh)

Yamuna

Ghagra

Mapchachungo Glacier, Tibet, China

Ganga

Kosi

Sun Kosi, Arun and Tamur form Saptakoshi (Tribenighat, Nepal)

Ganga

Betwa

Vindhya Range (Kumhra village, Raisen, Madhya Pradesh)

Yamuna

Son

Amarkantak

Ganga

Brahmaputra

Near Mansarovar Lake

Bay of Bengal

Narmada

Amarkantak

Gulf of Khambat

Tapti

Betul District, Madhya Pradesh

Gulf of Khambat

Mahanadi

Sihawa town in Dhamtari district of Chhattisgarh

Bay of Bengal

Luni

Pushkar valley of the Aravalli Range, near Ajmer

Rann of kuchchh

Ghaggar

Himalayas

Near Fatehabad

Sabarmati

Aravalli Range of the Udaipur District of Rajasthan

Gulf of Khambat

Krishna

Near Mahabaleswar, Jor village (Satara district, Maharashtra)

Bay of Bengal

Godavari

Brahmagiri Mountain, Tryambakeshwar (Nashik, Maharashtra)

Bay of Bengal

Kaveri

Talakaveri, Kodagu, Western Ghats, Karnataka

Bay of Bengal

Tungabhadra

Koodli (place where the Thunga and Bhadra rivers meet) (Koodli, Bhadravathi, Karnataka)

Krishna River

In the above list Major Rivers in India will enhance the general knowledge of the readers.

India's Drainage System

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