{"id":355398,"date":"2026-02-05T12:23:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=355398"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:53:50","slug":"pennaiyar-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pennaiyar-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennaiyar river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Supreme Court directs Centre to constitute tribunal to settle Pennaiyar river dispute between T.N. and Karnataka.<\/p>\n<h2>About Pennaiyar river<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_355399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-355399\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-355399\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Source-Britannica.jpg?resize=300%2C247&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pennaiyar river\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Source-Britannica.jpg?resize=300%2C247&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Source-Britannica.jpg?w=427&amp;ssl=1 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-355399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; Britannica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Origin:<\/strong> It originates in the <strong>Nandi Hills in the Chikkaballapura district of Karnataka<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>also known as<\/strong> the <strong>South Pennar River<\/strong>, <strong>Dakshina Pinakini<\/strong> in Kannada, and <strong>Thenpennai<\/strong>, <strong>Ponnaiyar<\/strong>, or <strong>Pennaiyar<\/strong> in Tamil.<\/li>\n<li><strong>States covered:<\/strong> It covers a large area in the State of <strong>Tamil Nadu<\/strong> besides the areas covered in the states of <strong>Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Basin:<\/strong> Its basin is the <strong>second largest interstate East flowing river basin<\/strong> among the <strong>12 basins lying between Pennar and Cauvery basins.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Length: <\/strong>It is the <strong>second longest river in Tamil Nadu (497 km)<\/strong> after the Kaveri.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major tributaries:<\/strong> Markandeya River, Varaha Nadhi, Pambar River and Pampar River<\/li>\n<li><strong>Falls into:<\/strong> It flows <strong>southward for 80 km through Karnataka<\/strong> to northwestern <strong>Tamil Nadu<\/strong>, where it <strong>turns<\/strong> and flows <strong>southeastward to enter the Bay of Bengal at Cuddalore<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major dams:<\/strong> Krishnagiri Dam, Kelavarapalli Dam, Sathanur Dam (largest)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Important cities:<\/strong> Bangalore, Hosur, Tiruvannamalai, and Cuddalore are the important cities on the banks of this river.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Supreme Court directs Centre to constitute tribunal to settle Pennaiyar river dispute between T.N. and Karnataka. About Pennaiyar river Origin: It originates in the Nandi Hills in the Chikkaballapura district of Karnataka. It is also known as the South Pennar River, Dakshina Pinakini in Kannada, and Thenpennai, Ponnaiyar, or Pennaiyar in Tamil. States covered:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pennaiyar-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pennaiyar river<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-355398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}