{"id":368659,"date":"2026-07-31T16:32:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=368659"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:02:54","slug":"bhavani-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bhavani-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhavani River\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Large stretches of the Bhavani River near Kooduthurai have been overrun by water hyacinth, raising concerns over irrigation and the river&#8217;s ecosystem.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><b>About Bhavani River\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_368665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-368665\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-368665\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/images.jpeg?resize=300%2C207&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bhavani River \" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/images.jpeg?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/images.jpeg?w=667&amp;ssl=1 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-368665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Research Gate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the<\/span><b> second largest and perennial river in Tamil Nadu.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Origin of river:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It originates from <\/span><b>Nilgiri hills of the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Course of the river: <\/b>From western ghat, it flows <strong>through Kerala<\/strong>, passing through <strong>Silent Valley National Park<\/strong><b>.\u00a0<\/b><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>After traversing Kerala, it re-enters Tamil Nadu and<b> finally joins the Cauvery River at Bhavani, near the Bhavani Sangameshwarar Temple.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Drainage area:<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its watershed <\/span><b>drains an area of 6,200 sq. km spread<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over <\/span><b>Tamil Nadu, Kerala\u00a0 and Karnataka.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Tributaries: <\/b>Its<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0major tributaries are the <\/span><b>West Varagar and East Varagar rivers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, both of which originate in the Nilgiri Hills.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Tributary of: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a tributary o<strong>f <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kaveri-cauvery-river\/\">Kaveri \/Cauvery River<\/a><\/strong><\/span><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>Dams: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two dams situated on the River are <\/span><b>Bhavanisagar Dam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Kodiveri Dam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Large stretches of the Bhavani River near Kooduthurai have been overrun by water hyacinth, raising concerns over irrigation and the river&#8217;s ecosystem. About Bhavani River\u00a0 It is the second largest and perennial river in Tamil Nadu. Origin of river: It originates from Nilgiri hills of the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu.\u00a0 Course of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bhavani-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bhavani 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":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-368659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368659","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=368659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}