River
Bhima River
861 km from source to mouth · India.
IndiaFlows into Krishna River10th longest in India
In numbers
Length
861km
Average flow
450m³/s
Basin
70,614km²
Drop
305m
from 643 m to 338 m
Country
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The journey
From source to mouth
861 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmBhimashankar Templeat 643 m
- 36 kmRājgurunagar25,146 people
- 68 kmIndrayani Rivertributary
- 72 kmKoregaon25,846 people
- 124 kmMula-Mutha Rivertributary
- 158 kmDaund49,450 people
- 218 kmBhigvan8,753 people
- 383 kmWellingdon Bridge
- 384 kmPandharpur98,923 people
- 579 kmAfzalpur27,088 people
- 628 kmAmarjatributary
- 861 kmKrishna Riverat 338 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in India
At the mouth it carries 452 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 5.5 seconds. It drops from 643 m to 338 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 70,614 km², about the size of IE. 22.9 million people live in it. Highest water: September; lowest: from January to April. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (49% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- PandharpurLargest city on its banks · 98,923 people
- Murod Kond Airport (LTU)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 145 km from the cityCar hire at PNQ airport (Pune)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From November to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Bhima River, month by month
Highest water: September
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from November to February.
From about 27 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,500 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
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The basin
Bhima River: the basin in numbers
70,663 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 22.9millionpeople live in the basin
- 326/km²people per km²
- 563maverage altitude of the basin
- 773mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 26.0°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 0.9%covered by lakes
- 6.9km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 10% Forest
- 80% Cropland
- 3% Pasture
- 6% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Bhima River: what you find on the way
- 14Weirs
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Bhima River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Krishna RiverIndia1,400 km1,600 m³/sTributaries (3)
Also: Indrayani River, Amarja, Mula-Mutha River
In the same basin
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q854999) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
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