{"id":24145,"date":"2024-06-11T05:54:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T00:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24145"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:43:23","slug":"ghataprabha-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ghataprabha-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Ghataprabha River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Ghataprabha River:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>tributary of the Krishna River<\/strong> and flows <strong>in the state of Karnataka<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>: The river <strong>originates in the Western Ghats<\/strong> at an elevation of 884 meters and flows in the direction of east for a distance of 283 kilometers before it merges with the Krishna River.<\/li>\n<li>The river debouches by 53 metres at <strong>Gokak Falls<\/strong> in Belgaum (Belagaavi) District, Karnataka.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>river basin<\/strong> is 8,829 square kilometers wide and <strong>stretches across Karnataka and Maharashtra states.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Hiranyakeshi River<\/strong> and the <strong>Markandeya River are tributaries<\/strong> of the Ghataprabha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Facts about Krishna River:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a river in <strong>south-central India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>: It rises in <strong>western Maharashtra state<\/strong> in the <strong>Western Ghatsrangenear<\/strong> the town of <strong>Mahabaleshwar<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In terms of water inflows<\/strong> and river basin, Krishna is the <strong>fourth biggest river <\/strong>after<strong> Ganga<\/strong>, Godavari, and Brahmaputra.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Total Length: 1300 km\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>: It passes through <strong>Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh<\/strong> and <strong>meets the Bay of Bengal<\/strong> at Hamasaladeevi <strong>in Andhra Pradesh<\/strong>, on the east coast.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Krishna River Basin<\/strong> extends over an area of about 258,948 sq. km, which is nearly <strong>8 percent <\/strong>of the total geographical <strong>area of the country.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>most important tributary is the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tungabhadra-river\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tungabhadra River<\/a>. It has been formed by the Tunga River and the Bhadra River, which originate in the Western Ghats.<\/li>\n<li>Other tributaries include the <strong>Koyna River, Bhima River<\/strong>, Kundali River, <strong>Malaprabha River,Ghataprabha<\/strong> River, <strong>Yerla River<\/strong>, Warana River, Dindi River, <strong>Musi River<\/strong>, and <strong>Dudhganga River<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: Which are the major tributaries of the Ganges River?\u00a0<\/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\/hubballi\/nine-rescued-after-tractor-falls-into-ghataprabha-river\/articleshow\/110855920.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nine rescued after tractor falls into Ghataprabha River<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghataprabha River is a tributary of the Krishna River and flows in the state of Karnataka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24145","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\/24145","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=24145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}