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Map of India showing the major rivers. With a land area of 3,287,263 km 2 (1,269,219 sq mi) consisting of diverse ecosystems, India has many rivers systems and perennial streams. [ 1 ] The rivers of India can be classified into four groups – Himalayan, Deccan, Coastal, and Inland drainage.
Most of the rivers in India originate from the four major watersheds in India. The Himalayan watershed is the source of majority of the major river systems in India including the three major rivers–the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Indus. [3] [4] These three river systems are fed by more than 5000 glaciers. [5]
For a detailed map of all disputed regions in South Asia, see Image:India disputed areas map.svg Internal borders The borders of the state of Meghalaya, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh are shown as interpreted from the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971, but has yet to be verified.
Aai River [6] BARAK RIVER Assam 121 NW7 Ajay River: West Bengal 96 Y NW8 Alappuzha-Changanassery Canal Kerala 28 Y NW9 Alappuzha-Kottayam-Athirampuzha Canal Kerala 38 P NW10 Amba River Maharashtra: 45 Y NW11 Arunavati River-Aran River northern maharastra 98 Y NW12 Asi River: Uttar Pradesh 5.5 Y NW13 AVM Canal: Kerala, Tamil Nadu: 11 N NW14 ...
Average rainfall Map showing the low rainfall areas in the interior of the plateau. The Deccan forms one of the major watersheds of India, feeding many perennial rivers. [44] The major river systems originating in the Western Ghats are the Godavari, Kaveri, and Krishna.
The word "India" is derived from the Indus River. In ancient times, "India" initially referred to those regions immediately along the east bank of the Indus, where are Punjab and Sindh now but by 300 BC, Greek writers including Herodotus and Megasthenes were applying the term to the entire subcontinent that extends much farther eastward. [29] [30]
By the 5th century CE, an elaborate mythology surrounded the Ganges, now a goddess in her own right, and a symbol for all rivers of India. [87] Hindu temples all over India had statues and reliefs of the goddess carved at their entrances, symbolically washing the sins of arriving worshippers and guarding the gods within. [88]
List of major rivers of India; A. List of rivers of Andhra Pradesh; List of rivers of Assam; B. Banganga River; C. List of Indian cities on rivers; D.