Ponnaiyar River

 🖌️Ponnaiyar River

🛡️The Ponnaiyar is a small stream which is confined to the coastal area only.

🛡️It covers a small area in the state of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

🛡️The river originates in the Nandi Hills in the Chikkaballapura district of Karnataka and flows through Tamil Nadu before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.

🛡️It has a catchment area of 1,424 square miles (3,690 km2) located in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh states.

🛡️Small dams of Kelavarapalli and Krishnagiri dams are built across this river near Hosur and Krishnagiri.

🛡️The largest dam on this river , Sathanur Dam with 7.3 Tmcft Gross Capacity is built near Tiruvannamalai.

🛡️Ponnaiyar Basin is bounded on the North -West and South by various ranges of the Eastern Ghats like the Velikonda Range, the Nagari hills, the Javadu hills, the Shevaroy hills, the Chitteri hills and the Kalrayan hills and in the East by the Bay of Bengal.