Bhadar River

Bhadar
River
Bhadar River (Near Navi Bandar, Porbandar)
Country India
State Gujarat
Source
 - location Jasdan, India
 - elevation 210 m (689 ft)
 - coordinates 22°00′56″N 71°12′18″E / 22.015546°N 71.204900°E / 22.015546; 71.204900
Mouth
 - location Navi Bandar, India
 - elevation 0 m (0 ft)
 - coordinates 21°27′09″N 69°47′26″E / 21.452534°N 69.790494°E / 21.452534; 69.790494Coordinates: 21°27′09″N 69°47′26″E / 21.452534°N 69.790494°E / 21.452534; 69.790494
Length 200 km (124 mi)
Basin 12,386[1] km2 (4,782 sq mi)

Bhadar River is a river in the Saurashtra peninsula, in the Western Indian state of Gujarat. It flows south from its origin through Jasdan, then turns south-west and generally west until it empties into the Arabian Sea near Porbandar.[2] The total catchment area of the basin is 7,094 square kilometres (2,739 sq mi).[3]

It is impounded by two reservoirs, Bhadar-I reservoir with a capacity of 238,000,000 cubic metres (193,000 acre⋅ft), and downstream from that, Bhadar-II reservoir with a capacity of 49,000,000 cubic metres (40,000 acre⋅ft).[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Quantitative Morphometric Analysis of Bhadar River Basin, India using ASTER (GDEM) Data and GIS". Cloud Publications. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Bhadar River". India-WRIS Wiki. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
  3. 1 2 "Bhadar River". guj-nwrws.gujarat.gov.in, Government of Gujarat. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
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