{"id":12262,"date":"2023-06-20T12:12:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T06:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12262"},"modified":"2025-03-30T08:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T02:50:13","slug":"gira-waterfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gira-waterfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Gira Waterfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gira Waterfall:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>seasonal waterfall<\/strong> <strong>in the Western Ghats<\/strong> of India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is located near the <strong>Waghai village<\/strong> in the <strong>Dang district of Gujarat.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>75 ft fall<\/strong> that <strong>emerges from the Kapri Tributary<\/strong> and <strong>drops into the Ambika River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Ambika River:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>major westward flowing river<\/strong> that has a huge <strong>catchment area in two states, <\/strong>namely<strong> Gujarat and Maharashtra.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>: The river has its origins in the <strong>Saputara Hills<\/strong>, near Kotambi Village <strong>in the Nasik district of Maharashtra.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>After flowing for a <strong>length of 136 km<\/strong> it <strong>drains in to the Arabian Sea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>drainage area of 2715 Sq.km<\/strong>. The Valsad, Dangs and Surat Districts of Gujarat and a small portion of the Nasik district of Maharashtra falls in the basin.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rainfall<\/strong>: It <strong>receives most of the rainfall from the South West monsoon<\/strong> from June to September.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries: Khapri,Valam, Kaveri and Kharear<\/strong> are main tributaries of Ambika river.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Which are the major tributaries of Ambika river?<\/h3>\n<p>Ambika River is a major westward flowing river that has a huge catchment area in two states, namely Gujarat and Maharashtra. Khapri,Valam, Kaveri and Kharear are main tributaries of Ambika river.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/ahmedabad\/dangs-gujarat-honeybee-attack-8672899\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>19 injured in honeybee attack in Dangs, Gujarat<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gira Waterfall is a seasonal waterfall in the Western Ghats of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}