Question

Name the drainage pattern of river ganga along with its features

Answer 1

Drainage

The term drainage describes the river system of an area. Do you know that all the rivers of an area meet at one point and drain into a larger water body such as a lake or a sea or an ocean? Yes. a drainage system is an area that is drained by a single river.  A mountain or upland separate two drainage basins. Such a separation is known as water divide.

Drainage System of India

The drainage system of India, that is, the rivers, is divided into two major groups:

the Himalayan rivers
the Peninsular rivers

The Ganga River System

‘Bhagirathi’ which is the headwaters of the Ganga is fed by the Gangotri Glacier. It is joined by the Alaknanda at Devaprayag in Uttarakhand. The Ganga emerges at Haridwar from the mountains on to the plane. Many major rivers join the Ganga which includes the Yamuna, the Ghaghara, the Gandak and the Kosi. the river Yamuna emerges from the Yamunotri Glacier in the Himalayas. It meets the Ganga at Allahabad at the right bank.

The Ghaghara, the Gandak and the Kosi rise in the Nepal Himalaya. The tributaries which come from the peninsular uplands include the Chambal, the Betwa and the Son.These rivers do not carry much water in them.The Ganga flows eastwards till Farakka in West Bengal. this is the northernmost point of the Ganga delta. From here, the river bifurcates. The length of the Ganga is over 2500 km.

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Answer 2

The dendritic drainage pattern is the drainage pattern of the river Ganga.

Explanation:

• The common drainage pattern that resembles the shape of tree root branches is considered as dendritic drainage. River Ganges has this drainage pattern. This drainage occurs in the areas that are made up of homogeneous materials.

Features:

• In this pattern, the tributaries do not follow a specific direction as the geological subsurface is resistant to weathering.
• The tributaries make angles of 90 degrees with the broader streams in this pattern.

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