{"id":23547,"date":"2024-10-13T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T05:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23547"},"modified":"2025-04-07T03:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T21:47:11","slug":"godavari-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/godavari-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Godavari River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Godavari River:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>India&#8217;s second-longest river<\/strong> after the Ganga and the third-largest in India, drains about 10% of India&#8217;s total geographical area.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is also called `<strong>Dakshina Ganga`,<\/strong> which translates into South Ganges River.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>origin<\/strong> of the Godavari River is in <strong>Brahmagiri Mountain<\/strong> at <strong>Trimbakeshwar<\/strong> in the <strong>Nashik district of Maharashtra.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It runs for a length of about <strong>1,465 kilometers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It finally <strong>empties itself into the Bay of Bengal<\/strong> at Narasapuram in West Godavari district, <strong>Andhra Pradesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>river mainstem travels through<\/strong> three states<strong>: Maharashtra, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh, <\/strong>while its <strong>basin includes Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka,<\/strong> parts of <strong>Chattisgarh, and Odisha.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It has a drainage basin of some 121,000 square miles (313,000 square km).<\/li>\n<li>The basin is <strong>bounded by the Satmala hills<\/strong>, <strong>the Ajanta range,<\/strong> and the <strong>Mahadeo hills<\/strong> on the north, by the <strong>Eastern Ghats<\/strong> on the south and the east, and by the <strong>Western Ghats<\/strong> on the west.<\/li>\n<li>The Godavari basin receives its maximum rainfall during the Southwest monsoon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries<\/strong>: The principal tributaries of the river are the <strong>Pravara<\/strong>, the <strong>Purna<\/strong>, the <strong>Manjra<\/strong>, the <strong>Penganga<\/strong>, the <strong>Wardha<\/strong>, the <strong>Wainganga<\/strong>, the <strong>Pranhita<\/strong> (combined flow of Wainganga, Penganga, Wardha), the Indravati, the Maner, and the Sabri.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: Which are the main tributaries of Ganga?<\/h3>\n<p>Tributaries of Ganga include Ramganga, Gomti, Ghaghara, Gandak, Kosi and Mahananda from the left bank and Yamuna, Tamsa, Son and Punpun from the right bank.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/nashik\/nashik-outsources-60-sanitary-workers-for-godavari-river-and-tributaries-cleanup\/articleshow\/114157261.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NMC plans to outsource sanitary workers to clean Godavari, four tributaries<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godavari River is India&#8217;s second-longest river after the Ganga and the third-largest in India, drains about 10% of India&#8217;s total geographical area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23547","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\/23547","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=23547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}