Q. Consider the following pairs:

Famous place – River

1. Pandharpur – Chandrabhaga
2. Tiruchirappalli – Cauvery
3. Hampi – Malaprabha

Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

  • 1 and 2 only
  • 2 and 3 only
  • 1 and 3 only
  • 1, 2 and 3

Answer: (a) 1 and 2 only

Notes:

  • Pandharpur:
    • It is a city on the banks of Chandrabhaga River in Maharashtra.
    • The famous Lord Vitthal-Rukmini Mandir is located in this city.
  • Tiruchirappalli:
    • It is situated on the banks of river Cauvery.
    • It is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
    • The famous Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple is located in Tiruchirappalli.
  • Hampi:
    • It was the capital of the Vijayanagara kingdom and is located on the bank of the Tungabhadra River.
    • Hampi is located in Karnataka.
    • Many famous temples like Virupaksha Temple, Nandi Statue etc are located in Hampi.
  • Pattadakal or Pattadakallu is situated on the banks of the river Malaprabha and is located in Karnataka.
Chandrabhaga River
  • The Chandrabhaga River is one of the important rivers in Amaravati district of the state of Maharashtra.
  • It is also the tributary of Purna River and forms a part of Tapti-Purna river system.
  • The main stream of the river rises just down the Vairat plateau in the Chikhaldarahills and takes an eastward course draining the south slopes of Chikhaldara and Gawilgarh plateaus. There is a dam on the river as it comes out of the valley. The river takes a more southward turn from the dam and passes through the town of Daryapur before it meets with river Purna on the border of Amravati and Akola districts.
  • Bhuleshwari is the main tributary of Chandrabhaga that meets it just before Daryapur. Bichan and Sapan rivers flowing through Paratwada and Achalpur are other affluent streams.
  • This Chandrabhaga river is different from the Bhima river, which is popularly called as Chandrabhaga at Pandharpur.

Chandra and Bhaga River

  • The River Chandra is one of the two rivers which merge to form the Chenab in the Lahaul region of Himachal Pradesh. It rises in the snows lying at the base of the main Himalayan range in the Lahaul and Spiti district. The beautiful Chandra Tal lake has formed at its source. It flows for a extensive distance along the base of this range in a southeasterly direction before turning completely and taking a southwesterly course in the Spiti Valley. It flows on to merge with the Bhaga River downstream of Keylong.
  • The upper and middle catchments of this river are made up of a topography that has been carved out by glacial action. The whole area is a vast cold desert that receives little or no rain as it lies in the rain-shadow of the Pir Panjal range lying towards the south. Many small snow-fed tributaries join the Chandra at different places.
  • Bhaga river joins Chandra river in Tandi to form Chandrabhaga and later Chenab which is one of the fastest flowing rivers of India. It originates near Baralacha la at around 16000 feet above sea level. From its source to its convergence with the Bhaga at Tandi, the Chandra registers a fall of about 12.5 metres per kilometre.

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