Bhima River

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The Bhima ( Marathi: भीमा, Kannada: Telugu ಭೀಮಾ: భీమా; Bhima [b ʱ i ː ma ː ] ) is an approximately 725 km long river in the Indian states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and the most important tributary of the Krishna. It rises in the Western Ghats, about 100 kilometers in a straight line to the northwest of Pune in Maharashtra. Is the Bhimashankar Temple, one of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines of Hinduism at its source. From there it flows in a southeasterly direction through the Deccan Plateau and flows through it, the states of Maharashtra and Karnataka. At its lower course it forms less than ten miles up the border between Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. 20 kilometers north of the city of Raichur opens the Bhima in the Krishna.

In 1990, 12.33 million people were living in the catchment area of the Bhima. In rain-starved Deccan its water for agriculture plays an important role.

Important tributaries

Left tributaries:

• Ghod
• Sina
• Bori
• Kagna

Rights tributaries:

• One
• Nira

• Krishna river system
• River in Asia
• River in India
• River in Maharashtra
• Geography ( Karnataka )
• River in Andhra Pradesh