These rivers reduce considerably or dry up during summers.
These do not originate in glaciers but are rain-fed rivers. They drain into the Bay of Bengal as they flow eastwards on the plateau and make ‘deltas’ at their mouths whereas the Narmada, Tapti - the west-flowing rivers fall into the Arabian Sea and make ‘estuaries’.
Since the Western Ghats form a ‘water divide’, these rivers either flow eastwards into the Bay of Bengal or into the Arabian Sea towards the west. Peninsular River System or Peninsular Drainage emerges mainly from the Western Ghats. The Himalayan Rivers, as the name suggests, originate from the Himalayas and flow through the Northern Plains. The term river system refers to the ‘river along with its tributaries'.īased on their source, the Indian River system is classified into - Himalayan Rivers and Peninsular Rivers.
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