Yamuna river capital

Uttar Pradesh : Kairana and Baghpat. Originating from the Yamunotri Glacier at a height of about 4, m 14, ft [ 1 ] on the southwestern slopes of Bandarpunch peaks of the Lower Himalaya in Uttarakhand, it travels 1, kilometres mi and has a drainage system of , square kilometres , sq mi , Like the Ganges, the Yamuna is highly venerated in Hinduism and worshipped as the goddess Yamuna.

Yamuna river map

In Hinduism, she is believed to be the daughter of the sun god, Surya , and the sister of Yama , the god of death, and so she is also known as Yami. According to popular Hindu legends, bathing in Yamuna's sacred waters frees one from the torments of death. It also meets several tributaries along the way, including Tons , Chambal , its longest tributary which has its own large basin, followed by Sindh , the Betwa , and Ken.

From Uttarakhand, the river flows into the state of Himachal Pradesh. It helps create the highly fertile alluvial Ganges-Yamuna Doab region between itself and the Ganges in the Indo-Gangetic plain. Nearly 57 million people depend on the Yamuna's waters, and the river accounts for more than 70 percent of Delhi's water supply.

Beyond that point the Yamuna is joined by the Somb , a seasonal rivulet from Haryana, and by the highly polluted Hindon River near Noida , by Najafgarh drain near Wazirabad and by various other drains, so that it continues only as a trickling sewage-bearing drain before joining the Chambal at Pachnada in the Etawah District of Uttar Pradesh.

The water quality in Upper Yamuna, as the kilometre mi long stretch of Yamuna is called from its origin at Yamunotri to Okhla barrage , [ 6 ] is of "reasonably good quality" until the Wazirabad barrage in Delhi. Below this, the discharge of wastewater in Delhi through 15 drains between Wazirabad barrage and Okhla barrage renders the river severely polluted.

The present Sarsuti river which originates in the Shivalik hills in Himachal and Haryana border and merges with Ghaggar River near Pehowa is the palaeochannel of Yamuna. The source of Yamuna lies in the Yamunotri Glacier at an elevation of 6, metres 20, ft , on the southwestern slopes of Banderpooch peaks, which lie in the Mussoorie range of the Lower Himalayas , north of Haridwar in Uttarkashi district , Uttarakhand.

Also standing close to the temple, on its kilometre 8 mi trek route that follows the right bank of the river, lies Markendeya Tirtha, where the sage Markandeya wrote the Markandeya Purana.