🌊 Rivers · The Peninsular Plateau
Narmada
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Rises on the western flank of the Amarkantak plateau (about 1,057 m) and flows west in a rift valley between the Satpura to the south and the Vindhyan range to the north. Near Jabalpur it forms a gorge in marble rocks and the Dhuandhar waterfall. It meets the Arabian Sea south of Bharuch in a broad 27 km estuary. The Sardar Sarovar Project is built on it.
📘 NCERT Class 11, India: Physical Environment, Ch. 3 (Drainage System) ↗
📜 Near here in history
YugMap sites and events within about 20 km of the river as drawn on the map.
- c. 1,700 BCE Malwa culture at Navdatoli
- c. 618 CE Pulakeshin II defeats Harsha on the Narmada
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