{"id":49540,"date":"2025-06-08T15:18:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T09:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49540"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:13:21","slug":"kalvarayan-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kalvarayan-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalvarayan Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kalvarayan Hills Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>For the first time, a girl from the tribal community in the Kalvarayan Hills recently secured admission to an IIT.<\/p>\n<h2>About Kalvarayan Hills<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Kalrayan Hills are a major range of hills situated in the\u00a0<strong>Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Along with the Pachaimalai, Javadi, and Shevaroy<\/strong>\u00a0hills,\u00a0<strong>they separate the Kaveri River basin to the south from the Palar River basin to the north.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The hills range in height from 2000 feet to 3000 feet and extend over an area of 1095 sq.km.<\/li>\n<li>The hills straddle a number of Tamil Nadu districts, extending northeast from the Salem District.<\/li>\n<li>The Kalrayans are divided into<strong>\u00a0two sections\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 the northern section, referred to as the\u00a0<strong>Chinna (\u201clittle\u201d) Kalrayans<\/strong>, and the southern section, called the\u00a0<strong>Periya (\u201cbig\u201d) Kalrayans.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Chinna Kalrayans average 2700 feet in height, while the Periya Kalrayans average 4000 feet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Grassy jungles<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>deciduous forests, and Sholas<\/strong>\u00a0cover the hills.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The hills contain two waterfalls (<strong>Megam and Periyar Falls)<\/strong>, a stunning botanical park, numerous\u00a0<strong>temples, and woodlands.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Gomukhi Dam\u00a0<\/strong>is located at the foothills of the Kalvarayan Hills.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Kalrayan Hills are inhabited by indigenous peoples such as the\u00a0<strong>Malayan tribes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Kalvarayan Hills FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. The Kalvarayan Hills are part of which larger geographical feature?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Eastern Ghats<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which two river basins are separated by the Kalvarayan Hills?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Kaveri and Palar<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which dam is located at the foothills of the Kalvarayan Hills?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Gomukhi Dam<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/girl-from-tribal-community-in-kalvarayan-hills-earns-her-seat-in-iit\/article69660905.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalrayan Hills in Tamil Nadu&#8217;s Eastern Ghats, along with Pachaimalai, Javadi &#038; Shevaroy hills, separate the Kaveri and Palar river basins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[744,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-kalvarayan-hills","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49540","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}