Mahanadi

Course of the Mahanadi

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The Mahanadi (Hindi: महानदी Mahanadi, literally " Great River " ) is a river in eastern India. It rises near the town of Nagri in the highlands of Raipur in the southeast of the state of Chhattisgarh. From there, it flows in a northeasterly direction, then turns south from Raigarh to the east and flows finally east of Cuttack in the state of Odisha into the Bay of Bengal.

The Mahanadi drained almost total Chhattisgarh, large parts Odishas as well as smaller parts of Maharashtra and Jharkhand. Its length of 885 kilometers corresponds approximately to the Oder. The most important tributaries are the Seonath from the Maikala Mountains ( the eastern part of Satpuragebirges ), the Jonk and Ong from the border area between Chhattisgarh and Odisha, the Hasdo and the Mand from the northern Chhattisgarh, the Ib and Tel from Zentralodisha. Located northwest of the city of Sambalpur, on the border between Odisha and Chhattisgarh, the Hirakud Dam was built in the 1950s. The 1957 solemnly opened dam dams of India 's largest artificial lake ( 746 km ²). Downstream of the city of Cuttack is the Mahanadi and Brahmani Baitarani rivers with a huge river delta.

In the middle reaches of the Mahanadi, in the plane to Raipur, the influential region is used for the cultivation of rice, which is why you referred to this area as the " rice bowl". Also in Odisha rice cultivation is carried on mainly. In the delta mix more frequently with increasing salinity mangrove forests added.