Question

Write5 points about The Krishna Basin?

Answer 1

 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 Mahabaleshwarin 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.

·        The length of the river is about 1,400 km

·        Krishna basin lies between latitudes 13º 07’ N and 19º 20’ N and longitudes 73º 22’ E and 81º 10’ 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.

·          Drainage area of the basin is 258,948