what will cut rivers like krishna and godavari which form deep and broad valleys in them
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The Krishna is the second largest eastward draining interstate river in Peninsular
India. It rises in the Mahadev range of the Western Ghats at an altitude of 1,337 m
near Mahabaleshwar in Maharashtra State, about 64 km from the Arabian Sea. It
flows for a distance of 305 km in Maharashtra, 483 km in Karnataka and 612 km in
Andhra Pradesh before finally out falling into the Bay of Bengal. Thus the length
of the river is about 1,400 km and it flows across the whole width of the peninsula,
from west to east, through Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh states. The
basin lies between latitudes 1307 N and 1920 N and longitudes 7322 E and
8110 E. On the north, the basin is bounded by the range separating it from the
Godavari basin, on the south and east by the Eastern Ghats and on the west by the
Western Ghats. The basin extends over an area of 258,948 km2
, which is nearly 8%
of the total geographical area of the country. An index map of the Krishna basin is
given in Figure 1.
The basin is roughly triangular in shape with its base along the Western Ghats,
the apex at Vijayawada and the Krishna itself forming the median. The western
border of Krishna basin is formed by an unbroken line of ranges of the Western
Ghats. Most other parts of this basin are comprised of rolling and undulating terrain.
The state-wise distribution of drainage area is given in Table 1.
The Tungabhadra, Narayanpur, Srisailam, Nagarjunasagar and Prakasam barrage,
are the existing major projects in the basin. Jurala and Almatti are the ongoing
major projects while Pulichintala is the proposed major project.
Water balance studies carried by NWDA (by sub-dividing the whole basin into
12 sub-basins) have shown that the basin will be water deficit to the tune of
3,235Mm3 in the ultimate development scenario.
Explanation:
Answer:
The plateau or The Plain or The Mountain