Melamchi River (Nepali: मेलम्चि खोला) is a

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of the

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. It originates from the

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at an elevation of about amsl. It joins with the Indrawati River at

Melamchi Melamchi is a municipality in Sindhupalchok District in the Bagmati Province of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3936 and had 710 houses in the village. Government of Nepal has initiated a drinking water ...

Bazaar.

Morphology

The Melamchi River is long and has a

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of up to the

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. The river flows southwards and widens downstream.

Hydrology

The mean annual flow is 9.7 m³/s. The maximum flow is 289 m³/s.

Infrastructure

* Melamchi Water Supply Project in the river diverts water from the river to

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for drinking.

Incidents

* In June 2021, a

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of the river damaged the

Bazaar killing several locals and some foreigners.

References

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Morphology

Hydrology

Infrastructure

Incidents

See also

References