{"id":31423,"date":"2025-03-23T07:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T02:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31423"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:20:53","slug":"hemavathi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hemavathi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemavathi River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Hemavathi River Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Two youths, who went swimming in the Hemavati river near Henli village in Sakleshpur, drowned recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About Hemavathi River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a very important<strong> tributary of the Kaveri <\/strong>River.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>The river <strong>begins <\/strong>its journey <strong>in the Western Ghat<\/strong>s at an elevation of about 1219 m above sea level, near Ballala Rayana Durga in the Chikmagalur District of Karnataka.<\/li>\n<li>It flows through Tumkur, Hassan District, where it is joined by its <strong>chief tributary, <\/strong>the<strong> Yagachi Rive<\/strong>r, and <strong>then into Mysore District before joining the Kaveri <\/strong>Krishnarajasagara.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is approximately <strong>245 km long<\/strong> and has a drainage area of about 5,410 sq km.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Hemavati Reservoir is a masonry dam <\/strong>with a central spillway and earthen flanks built across the river near Gorur village.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has a storage capacity of 37.1 tmcft. The water from the reservoir is used to irrigate 6.55 acres of land in Mandya, Hassan, and Tumkur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Hemavathi River FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where is Hemavathi river located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Hemavathi River is located in Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Is Hemavathi a tributary of Kaveri?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Hemavathi is a very important tributary of the Kaveri River.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the approximate length of the Hemavathi River?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 245 km<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/two-drown-in-hemavathi-river-near-sakleshpur\/article69361681.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hemavathi River is a very important tributary of the Kaveri River. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31423","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\/31423","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=31423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}