{"id":22332,"date":"2024-04-10T03:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T21:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22332"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:57:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:27:03","slug":"tons-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tons-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Tons River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Tons River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>largest<\/strong> and most important <strong>tributary of the Yamuna.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is one of the most<strong> perennial rivers<\/strong> emerging from the <strong>Himalayas<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Tons River <strong>originates<\/strong> at a height <strong>of 6,315 metres<\/strong> from the <strong>Bandarpunch Mountain in Uttarakhand.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It flows through the <strong>Garhwal region of Uttarakhand<\/strong> and <strong>touches Himachal Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Surging from that great height, the glacier-fed river\u2019s course ends when it meets the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-yamuna-river\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yamuna River<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>joins Yamuna <\/strong>near Kalsi in <strong>the Dehradun district<\/strong>, Uttarakhand.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has a length of about <strong>200 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Along the way, the river <strong>cuts through deep gorges,<\/strong> tranquil valleys, and dense forests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tons, even being a tributary, <strong>contribute more water than Yamuna itself<\/strong> possesses at the point of meeting.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries<\/strong>: The <strong>Pabbar and Asan<\/strong> rivers are the main tributaries of the Tons River.<\/li>\n<li>The Tons Valley is also culturally significant, inhabited by indigenous communities like the <strong>Jaunsari and Bhotiya tribes<\/strong>, who have their own unique traditions, dialects, and lifestyles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: Which are the major tributaries of the Yamuna River?<\/h3>\n<p>The important tributaries of the Yamuna River are Tons, Chambal, Hindon, Betwa and Ken. Other small tributaries of the Yamuna River include the Giri, Sind, Uttangan, Sengar and the Rind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/two-people-drown-in-tons-river-while-bathing-in-ups-ballia-2\/2034097\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Two people drown in Tons River while bathing in UP\u2019s Ballia<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tons River is the largest and most important tributary of the Yamuna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22332","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\/22332","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=22332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}