{"id":371732,"date":"2026-09-14T13:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T08:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=371732"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T08:22:22","slug":"bhadra-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bhadra-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhadra River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Water from the Bhadra Reservoir reached Gonur Lake in Chitradurga, marking a key milestone in the trial run of the Upper Bhadra Project\u2019s branch canal.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><b>About Bhadra River<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_371733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-371733\" style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-371733\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/images-3.jpg?resize=361%2C463&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bhadra River\" width=\"361\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/images-3.jpg?resize=234%2C300&amp;ssl=1 234w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/images-3.jpg?w=395&amp;ssl=1 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-371733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: ResearchGate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <strong>Bhadra River<\/strong> a major river and flows through<\/span><b>\u00a0Karnataka.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Origin: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It originates in the <\/span><b>Western Ghats<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and flows eastward across the <\/span><b>Deccan Plateau<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Course of river:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At <\/span><b>Koodli, <\/b>it<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0merges with the <\/span><b>Tunga River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he <strong>combined<\/strong> river flows eastward as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tungabhadra-river\/\"><b>Tungabhadra<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tungabhadra joins the Krishna at <\/span><b>Sangamaleshwaram in Andhra Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/krishna-river\/\"><b>Krishna River<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> eventually flows into the <\/span><b>Bay of Bengal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river also passes through the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bhadra-tiger-reserve\/\"><b>Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Length: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its total length<\/span>is<b> 178 km.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Tributary of: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a tributary of the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/krishna-river\/\"><b> Krishna River<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Tributaries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is joined by tributaries such as the <\/span><b>Somavahini, Thadabehalla and Odirayanahalla<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Dam situated on river: Bhadra Dam <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is built across the river at <\/span><b>Bhadravathi, Karnataka, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which forms the <\/span><b>Bhadra reservoir.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Water from the Bhadra Reservoir reached Gonur Lake in Chitradurga, marking a key milestone in the trial run of the Upper Bhadra Project\u2019s branch canal. About Bhadra River The Bhadra River a major river and flows through\u00a0Karnataka.\u00a0 Origin: It originates in the Western Ghats and flows eastward across the Deccan Plateau. Course of river:\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bhadra-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bhadra River<\/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":[11872,11074],"class_list":["post-371732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371732","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=371732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}