Ponnaiyar River

 🖌️Ponnaiyar River

Also read :Mahadayi/ Mandovi River

Also read :Zuari 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.

Also read :Mawsynram

Also read :SIGNIFICANCE OF SALINITY OF OCEAN

🛡️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.

Also read :Zuari River

Also read :Ponnaiyar River

🛡️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.

Also read :COOL TEMEPERATE WESTERN MARGIN (BRITISH) TYPE CLIMATE

Also read : Dual Government in Bengal

🛡️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.