Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 9Social ScienceDrainage System3 Marks
Question
Explain the Sindhu River System.
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Answer
(1) River Sindhu originates in the Kailas-Mansarovar area in Tibet, flows towards north - west. passes through Ladakh and Baltistan of Jammu-Kashmir. It has carved out many . inaccessible gorges here. Rivers Zaskar, Shyok, Nubra, Gilgit, Hunza, etc. meet her.
(2) After Jammu-Kashmir, the river turns towards south and enters Baltistan and Gilgit area and comes out of the mountains near Atak. In Pakistan, a combined flow of five rivers of Punjab-Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Satluj - meets Sindhu near its upper course near Panjnad Mithankot. It flows further and meets Arabian Sea to the east of Karachi. The Sindhu plain has a gentle slope.
(3 ) About = part of the Sindhu basin is in Jammu-Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab in India.
(4) Sindhu is one of the long rivers of the world. Its length is about 2900 km.
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