{"id":23699,"date":"2024-09-27T03:47:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T22:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23699"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:22:24","slug":"kumaon-himalayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kumaon-himalayas\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumaon Himalayas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Kumaon Himalayas:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0<strong>west-central section<\/strong>\u00a0of the Himalayas in northern India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Geographical boundary:<\/strong>\u00a0It lies between the\u00a0<strong>Sutlej River<\/strong>\u00a0in the west and the\u00a0<strong>Kali River<\/strong>\u00a0in the East.<\/li>\n<li>It comprises\u00a0<strong>part of the Siwalik Range<\/strong>\u00a0in the south and part of the Great Himalayas in the north, lies largely within the state of Uttarakhand, northwest of Nepal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest peaks of this region:<\/strong>\u00a0Nanda Devi and Kamet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lakes of this region:<\/strong>\u00a0Naini Lake, Sattal, Bhimtal, Naukuchiya Tal<\/li>\n<li>It is home to some of the major hill stations such as\u00a0<strong>Nainital, Ranikhet, and Almora.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also the melting pot of tribal\/indigenous people \u2013\u00a0<strong>Tharus, Bhutiyas, Jaunsaris, Buksas, and Rajiswhose.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Concern:\u00a0<\/strong>It is an ecologically fragile and\u00a0<strong>seismic-prone area.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Shiwalik Range<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shivalik Hills are a sub-Himalayan Mountain Range running 1,600 km long from the Teesta River, Sikkim, through Nepal and India, into northern Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li>The range\u00a0<strong>runs parallel with the Himalayan<\/strong>\u00a0system from Haridwar on the Ganges to the banks of the Beas River. The hills have an average height of 900 to 1,200 m.<\/li>\n<li>They are chiefly composed of\u00a0<strong>low sandstone and conglomerate hills<\/strong>, the solidified and up-heaved detritus of the great range in their rear, the intermediate valley lying between the outer hills and the Mussoorie.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Plate tectonics?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-tectonic-plate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Plate tectonics<\/a> is the theory that Earth&#8217;s outer shell is divided into large slabs of solid rock, called \u201cplates,\u201d that glide over Earth&#8217;s mantle, the rocky inner layer above Earth&#8217;s core.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/sc-halts-90-acre-project-in-kumaon-himalayas-on-a-plea-challenging-single-window-clearances\/article68201001.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SC halts 90-acre project in Kumaon Himalayas on a plea challenging \u2018single window\u2019 clearances<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumaon Himalayas is the west-central section of the Himalayas in northern India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23699","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\/23699","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=23699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}