{"id":23935,"date":"2024-06-03T07:05:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T01:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23935"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T11:58:01","slug":"sunkoshi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sunkoshi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Sunkoshi River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Sunkoshi River:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sunkoshi, also known as the \u2018<strong>river of gold<\/strong>, is a <strong>river in Nepal<\/strong> that is <strong>part of the Koshi or Saptkoshi River system <\/strong>formed by the seven (sapta) rivers joining in <strong>east-central Nepal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>: River Sunkoshi\u2019s <strong>water source<\/strong> is located in <strong>the Zhangzangbo Glacier in Tibet<\/strong>, which <strong>merges with River Saptkoshi,<\/strong> ultimately <strong>joining the Gangain<\/strong> the Katihar district of <strong>Bihar <\/strong>in India, before finally draining into the ocean at the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>one of the longest<\/strong> and most <strong>popular rivers for rafting in Nepal<\/strong>, and is known for its <strong>challenging rapids<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>forms the watershed<\/strong> for <strong>most of eastern Nepal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Facts about Koshi River:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>transboundary river<\/strong> which flows through <strong>China, Nepal, and India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a prominent <strong>tributary of the Ganges<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>: Originating from the <strong>Tibetan Plateau<\/strong>, it <strong>crosses the Himalayas<\/strong> and <strong>flows through<\/strong> the <strong>Mahabharat range and Siwalik hills<\/strong>, <strong>reaching the plains of eastern Nepal<\/strong> and finally <strong>meeting the Ganges in Bihar<\/strong>, India.<\/li>\n<li>The Kosi drains an area of 74,500 sq.km, of which only 11,070 sq.km lie within Indian Territory. The Koshi River system <strong>drains about 45% of Nepal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Kosi River valley is <strong>bounded by steep margins<\/strong> that <strong>disconnect it from the Yarlung Zangbo River<\/strong> to the north, the <strong>Mahananda River<\/strong> to the east, the <strong>Gandaki<\/strong> to the west, and the <strong>Ganga<\/strong> to the south.<\/li>\n<li>It is well <strong>known for its tendency to change course,<\/strong> generally in a westward direction. During the last 200 years, the river has shifted westwards for a distance of about 112 km and has laid waste large tracks of agricultural land<\/li>\n<li>Kosi is known as the &#8220;<strong>sorrow of Bihar&#8221;,<\/strong> as it has <strong>caused widespread human suffering<\/strong> in the past <strong>due to flooding<\/strong> and very frequent changes in course, when it flows from Nepal to Bihar.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries<\/strong>: It has seven major tributaries: <strong>Sun Koshi, Tama Koshi or Tamba Koshi, Dudh Koshi, Indravati, Likhu, Arun, and Tamore or Tamar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: Which are the main tributaries of Ganges River?<\/h3>\n<p>The Yamuna, the Ghaghara, the Gandak and the Kosi are the major tributaries of the river Ganga.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/river-sunkoshi-cleanup-in-nepal-removes-24575-kg-of-plastic-in-36-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">River Sunkoshi Cleanup In Nepal Removes 24,575 Kg Of Plastic In 36 Hours<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunkoshi, also known as the \u2018river of gold, is a river in Nepal that is part of the Koshi or Saptkoshi River system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23935","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\/23935","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=23935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}