Beas River

Course of the Beas in the catchment area of the Indus

The Beas at Manikant, Himachal Pradesh, India

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The Beas (Hindi: बियास Biya, Biya, also ब्यास Byas, Byas ) is a river in northwestern India. It rises in the Himalayas, flows through the city and flows south Manali from Amritsar to 470 kilometers in the state of Punjab in the Satluj.

The origin lies near the Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh. Below the Kullu valley its water is dammed for power generation and in some cases in the Satluj after Bilaspur in a line, which is also known as Satluj Hydralon Channel derived. Among dine tributaries riverbed. The Beas is also the border between the districts of Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur in Punjab. It serves as an irrigation source, its water is passed through channels to the fields. Therefore, the river bed is dry like in some places.

The conquests of Alexander the Great in India ended on Beas. The ancient name of the river, which is usually used in this context, is Hyphasis (Greek Ὕφασις ).