The Gulf of Khambhat, historically known as the Gulf of Cambay, is a bay on the
Arabian Sea
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coast of
India
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, bordering the state of
Gujarat
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just north of
Mumbai
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and
Diu Island.
The Gulf of Khambhat is about long, about wide in the north and up to wide in the south. Major rivers draining Gujarat are the
Narmada,
Tapti
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,
Mahi and the
Sabarmati, that form
estuaries
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in the gulf.
It divides the
Kathiawar Peninsula from the south-eastern part of Gujarat.
[Trivedi, P. and Soni, V. C. (2012)]
Significant bird records and local extinctions in Purna and Ratanmahal Wildlife Sanctuaries, Gujarat, India
Jhala
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, Y. V., Qureshi, Q., Sinha, P. R. (Eds.) (2011)
''Status of tigers, co-predators and prey in India, 2010.''
National Tiger Conservation Authority, Government of India, New Delhi, and Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. TR 2011/003.
There are plans to construct a dam,
Kalpasar Project, across the gulf.
Wildlife
To the west of the Gulf,
Asiatic lion
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s inhabit the
Gir Forest National Park
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and its surroundings, the region of Kathiawar or
Saurashtra.
To the east of the Gulf, the Dangs' Forest and Shoolpaneshwar Wildlife Sanctuary
Shoolpaneshwar Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area in India's Gujarat state, located in the western Satpura Range south of the Narmada River and is large. It shares a common boundary with Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. It encompasses mi ...
, where Gujarat meets Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh
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, used to host Bengal tiger
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The tiger is estimated to have been present in ...
s.
See also
*City of Khambhat
Khambhat (, ), also known as Cambay, is a city and the surrounding urban agglomeration in Anand district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It was once an important trading center, but its harbour gradually silted up, and the maritime trade moved ...
* Coral reefs in India
*Dumas Beach
Dumas Beach is a rural beach along the Arabian Sea, located southwest of the city of Surat in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is a popular tourist destination in South Gujarat. Dumas Beach is justly famous for being in the top 35 haunted spot ...
*Marine archaeology in the Gulf of Cambay
Marine archeology in the Gulf of Khambhat - earlier known as Gulf of Cambay - centers around controversial findings made in December 2000 by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) under the Gulf of Khambhat, a bay on the Arabian Sea on ...
*Marine National Park, Gulf of Kutch
Marine National Park in the Gulf of Kutch is situated on the southern shore of the Gulf of Kutch in the Devbhumi Dwarka district of Gujarat state, India. In 1980, an area of 270 km2 from Okha to Jodiya was declared Marine Sanctuary. Later, ...
References
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Landforms of Gujarat
Khambhat
Khambhat (, ), also known as Cambay, is a city and the surrounding urban agglomeration in Anand district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It was once an important trading center, but its harbour gradually silted up, and the maritime trade moved ...
Bodies of water of the Arabian Sea
Khambhat
Khambhat (, ), also known as Cambay, is a city and the surrounding urban agglomeration in Anand district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It was once an important trading center, but its harbour gradually silted up, and the maritime trade moved ...