List of rivers of India

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Map of the major rivers, lakes and reservoirs in India. Click to enlarge.
Map of the major rivers, lakes and reservoirs in India. Click to enlarge.

This is a list of rivers in India. Rivers that flow into the sea are sorted geographically, along the coast starting from the Bay of Bengal in the east, moving along the Indian coast southward till Kanyakumari, and moving northward along the Arabian Sea. Rivers that flow into other rivers are sorted by the proximity of their points of union to the sea: the lower in the list, the more upstream.

The major rivers of India are:

The remaining rivers are:

  • flowing into the inner part of India.
  • coastal rivers.

Contents

[edit] Rivers flowing into Bay of Bengal

[edit] Brahmaputra River Basin

[edit] Ganga River Basin

Barak River

[edit] West Bengal Coastal Rivers

[edit] Mahanadi River Basin

[edit] Godavari River Basin

[edit] Krishna River Basin

[edit] Andhra Pradesh Coastal Rivers

Rivers like vamsadhara and nagavalli are the two coastal rivers in srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh

Sharada river starts at Devarapally in visakhapatnam district and drains in to the Bay of Bengal

[edit] Penner River Basin

[edit] Kaveri River Basin

[edit] Tamil Nadu Coastal Rivers

[edit] Rivers flowing into Arabian Sea

[edit] Karnataka Coastal Rivers

The rivers flowing through three coastal districts of Karnataka join Arabian sea.

[edit] Goa Coastal Rivers

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Mondavi River basically known as Mhadai in western ghat of Goa and Karnataka. It has three main source of origine. 1. Degao 2. Nanevadichi Nhai and 3. Gavali. second two gets dry in summer season. so the main origine which is in the form of spring during Summer season is at Bavtyacho Dongor ( Name of the Mountain)close to the Degao village, Khanapur Taluka, Dist. Belgum of Karnataka State.

All these stream meets down at the kabnali village where this majore stream known by the name MHADAI. This river Mhadai flow toward east at the beginning. then to North and moving to the west dorection towards Goa.

Mhadai River enters Goa in between Krisnapur ( Karnataka) and Kadval ( Goa) village.There are number of tributaries on the way which meets the river Mhadai like Nersa Nala, Chapoli and Kapoli nala, Bail Nala, Valo Panshiro ( Karnataka) Suko Panshiro, Harparo, Nanodyachi Nhai ( Nhai means River), Vellsachi Nhai, Valpoichi Nhai, Ghadghadyachi Nhai, Valvanti, Divchalchi Nhai, Assnodchi Nhai, Khandeparchi Nhai, Mhapsechi Nhai etc. ( Goa)

Mhadai or Mandovi is the longest River of Goa having 105 km. length.

[edit] Maharashtra Coastal Rivers

[edit] Narmada River Basin

[edit] Mahi River Basin

[edit] Sabarmati River Basin

[edit] Indus River Basin

[edit] Rivers flowing into inner part of India

[edit] Alphabetical list

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[edit] A-B-C-D

Achankovil River, Adyar River, Ahar River, Aner River,Anjarakkandy River, Alaknanda River, Amaravati River, Arkavathy River, Arvari River

Bahuda River, Ban Ganga River, Badiya River, Baleshwar River, Banas River, Bavanthadi River, Beas River, Berach River, Betwa River, Bhadra River, Bhagirathi River, Bharathapuzha River, Bhavani River, Bhima River,Brahmani River,Bosgah river Brahmaputra River, Budhi Gandak,Baghmati River

Chalakkudy River, Chaliyar River, Chambal River, Chenab River, Cheyyar River, Cooum River, Cathe River (Nagaland)

Daman Ganga River, Damodar River, Dhasan River, Dudhana River,

[edit] E-F-G-H

Gadhi River Ganges River, Gambhir River, Gandak, Gayathripuzha, Ghaggar River, Ghaghara River,Ghataprabha, Girija River,Girna River, Godavari River, Gomti River,Gunjavni River

Halali River, Haora River, Hoogli River

[edit] I-J-K-L

Indus River, Indravati River,

Jaldhaka, Jhelum River, Jayamangali River at tumkur district,

Kabini River,Kaagini River,River Kali , Kaali River Karnataka, Kali Sindh River, Kaliasote River, Kallayi River Kalpathipuzha, Kameng River, Kanhan River, Kamla Balan bihar,Kannadipuzha, Karnaphuli River, Kaveri River, Kelna River, Khadakpurna River, Kodoor River, Koel River, Kolab River, Kollidam River, Kosi River, Koyna River, Krishna River, Kundali River,

Lachen River, Lachung River, Lakshmana Tirtha River, Luni River,

[edit] M-N-O-P

Mahanadi River, Mahananda River, Mahakali River, Mahi River, Mandovi River, Meenachil River, Meghna River, Mithi River, Mula River, Musi River, Mutha River,Malaprabha,

Narmada River, Nethravathi River, Nag River (Maharashtra)

Palar River,Pahuj River, Panjnad River, Panzara River, Parambikulam River, Parbati River (Himachal Pradesh), Parbati River (Madhya Pradesh), Parbati River (Rajasthan), Payaswini, Pench River, Penganga River, Penner River, Periyar River, Ponnaiyar River, Pranhita River, Purna River,

[edit] Q-R-S-T

Ramganga , Rangeet River, Ravi River, Rihand River, Rukmavati River, Rupnarayan River, Rapti River

Sabarmati River, Sankh River,Shalmala River, Sharavathi River, Shimsha River, Shipra River, Sindh River, Son River, South Koel River, Subarnarekha River, Sutlej River, Surya River,

Tansa River, Tapti River, Tawa River, Teesta River, Thuthapuzha, Tunga River, Tungabhadra River, Thamirabarani River

[edit] U-V-W

Vaan River, Vaigai River, Vashishti River, Vedavathi River,Vrishabhavathi,Vishwamitri River

Ulhas River,

Wainganga River, Wagh River, Wardha River, West Banas River,

[edit] X-Y-Z

Yamuna River,

Zuari River,

[edit] Unsorted list by Tributary

See earlier section.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Classification of Waters of Wainganga Indravati Wardha Penganga River Basin". Maharashtra Government. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
  2. ^ "Classification of Waters of Upper Bhima River Basin". Maharashtra Government. Retrieved on 2006-10-17.

[edit] See also

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