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Confluence of the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda Rivers to produce the Ganges at Devprayag, India The same confluence viewed from upstream at a different time; note the swirl of sediment from the Alaknanda. In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more watercourses join to form a single channel. [1]
Triveni Sangam is located at Prayag – the area of Prayagraj neighbouring the confluence; for this reason, the confluence is also sometimes referred to as Prayag. [ 5 ] At the Triveni Sangam, the distinct characteristics of the rivers are visible: the Ganges flows with clear water [ verification needed ] , while the Yamuna appears greenish.
Alaknanda descending from the foot of the Satopanth (a triangular lake, which is located at a height of 4,402 m (14,442.3 ft), above the sea level and named after the Hindu trinity: Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and Bhagirath Kharak glaciers near the Nanda Devi peak, in Uttarakhand cascades over a length of 229 km (142.3 mi) encompassing the five prayags and is joined at Dev Prayag by the Bhagirathi ...
Sangam, any confluence of two or more rivers in Indian languages; Triveni Sangam, the confluence of three rivers at Prayagraj: the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati; Sangama or Mekedaatu, confluence of Arkawathy and Cauvery rivers in Karnataka, India
Devprayag (Deva prayāga) is a town and a nagar panchayat, near New Tehri city in Tehri Garhwal District [1] [2] in the state of Uttarakhand, India, and is the final one of the Panch Prayag (five confluences) of Alaknanda River where Alaknanda meets the Bhagirathi river and both rivers thereafter flow on as the Ganges river or Ganga.
Confluence of the Dhauliganga (right) with the Alaknanda (left) at Vishnuprayag. Vishnuprayāg is the confluence of India's Alaknanda and Dhauliganga rivers—the first of five major confluences of the Alakanda known as the Panch Prayag. It is located at an elevation of 1,372 metres (4,501 ft) in the Chamoli district in the state of Uttarakhand ...
For example, the colonial era Imperial Gazetteer of India reported that between 2 and 2.5 million pilgrims attended the Kumbh Mela in 1796 and 1808, then added these numbers may be exaggerations. Between 1892 and 1908, in an era of major famines, cholera and plague epidemics in British India, the pilgrimage dropped to between 300,000 and ...
Rudraprayag is a city and a municipality in Rudraprayag district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Rudraprayag is one of the Panch Prayag (five confluences) of Alaknanda River, the point of confluence of rivers Alaknanda and Mandakini. Kedarnath, a Hindu holy city, is located 86 km from Rudraprayag.