The Tawa River is a tributary of the
Narmada River of
Central India.
Course
The Tawa is the Narmada's largest tributary, at 172 km. It rises in the
Satpura Range
The Satpura Range is a range of hills in central India. The range rises in eastern Gujarat running east through the border of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and ends in Chhattisgarh. The range parallels the Vindhya Range to the north, and these ...
of
Betul and flowing north and west, joins the Narmada at the village of Bandra Bhan in
Narmadapuram District
Narmadapuram district is one of the districts of Madhya Pradesh state of India, and Narmadapuram city is the district headquarters.
Geography
The district has an area of 5408.23 km². Narmadapuram district is bounded by the districts of ...
.
Dam
In 1958, construction began on Tawa Dam, which was completed in 1978 in
Tawa Nagar to create Tawa Reservoir in southern Narmadapuram District. Forty-four villages were submerged by the reservoir.
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Surroundings
India's oldest forest preserve, the Bori Reserve Forest, was established in 1865 along the Tawa. The Bori Reserve Forest is part of the Bori Sanctuary, which is part of the Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve
The Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve is a non-use conservation area and biosphere reserve in the Satpura Range of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.
The conservation area was created in 1999 by the Indian government. It also contains animals fr ...
, established in 1999, which covers much of the upper watershed of the Tawa.
References
Rivers of Madhya Pradesh
Tributaries of the Narmada River
Rivers of India
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