{"id":368292,"date":"2026-07-27T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=368292"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:15:07","slug":"sone-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sone-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Sone River\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bihar and Jharkhand are set to sign an agreement on the sharing of Sone River waters, resolving a long-pending dispute that has persisted since the creation of Jharkhand in 2000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><b>About Sone River\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_368294\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-368294\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-368294\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Map-showing-the-location-of-Son-River-basin-with-major-reservoirs-marked.webp?resize=282%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sone River\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Map-showing-the-location-of-Son-River-basin-with-major-reservoirs-marked.webp?resize=282%2C300&amp;ssl=1 282w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Map-showing-the-location-of-Son-River-basin-with-major-reservoirs-marked.webp?resize=768%2C818&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Map-showing-the-location-of-Son-River-basin-with-major-reservoirs-marked.webp?w=850&amp;ssl=1 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-368294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Research Gate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sone River is<\/span><b> a perennial river. <\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also called <\/span><b>\u201cHiranyavaha\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">because of its <strong>golden coloured sand<\/strong>. <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was believed that the river <strong>carried gold dust<\/strong> in its flow.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Origin: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It originates in th<\/span><b>e Amarkantak hills of the Maikal Range in Madhya Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Course of river: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flows in a north<\/span><b>-northwest direction till Bansagar reservoir, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">after which it changes its course sharply eastwards, <\/span><b>flowing parallel to Kaimur Range, and joins Ganga River 30 km upstream of Patna in Bihar.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flows through the <\/span><b>Deccan Peninsula and Gangetic Plains biogeographic zones.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The upper stretch of the Son River passes through the tiger landscape of Central India.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Valley:<\/strong> The Sone River valley is <\/span><b>geologically regarded as a continuation of the Narmada River valley<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> towards the southwest.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The valley is bordered by the Kaimur Range in the north and the Chota Nagpur Plateau in the south.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Total length:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Its total length is <\/span><b>784 km.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>States through which it flows: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flows through<\/span><b> Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Tributary of: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a tributary of the <strong>river Ganga<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Tributaries: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its tributaries are <\/span><b>Banas, Gopad, Rihand, Kanhar and North Koel.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Species associated:<\/strong> It supports populations of<\/span><b> key indicator species such as gharial and mugger.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Seven species of turtles, Red-crowned roofed turtle, three-striped roofed turtle, crowned river turtle, Indian tent turtle, Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle, Ganges softshell turtle, and Indian flapshell turtle <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have been reported from the River.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Dams constructed on river: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Bansagar Dam (Madhya Pradesh)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Rihand Dam (Uttar Pradesh)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>Indrapuri Barrage (Bihar)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are the major dams and water infrastructure projects built on the Sone River.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Bihar and Jharkhand are set to sign an agreement on the sharing of Sone River waters, resolving a long-pending dispute that has persisted since the creation of Jharkhand in 2000.\u00a0 About Sone River\u00a0 Sone River is a perennial river. It is also called \u201cHiranyavaha\u201d because of its golden coloured sand. It was believed that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sone-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sone River\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"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":[11872,10595],"class_list":["post-368292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-hindustan-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368292","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}