The Kiul River ( hi, किऊल नदी) is a tributary of the

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. It originates in

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in the

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and flows through

Lakhisarai Lakhisarai (archaic spelling: Luckeesarai) town is the administrative headquarters of Lakhisarai district in the Indian state of Bihar. The town has a population of 99,931 (2011 census). it is situated about 45 km west of Munger. Demographics ...

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and

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districts of the state of

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and joins the Harohar river in the Diara region.

Course

The Kiul originates from the Tisri Hill Range in the

Kharagdiha Kharagdiha is a village in the Jamua CD block in the Khori Mahua subdivision of the Giridih district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It had been known as Curruckdea or Curruckdeah during the British Raj. Geography Location Kharagdiha is locat ...

police station area of Giridih district. After forming the boundary of the district for a short distance it enters Jamui district through a narrow gorge near the Satpahari hill. It first flows in an easterly direction close to the southern base of the Girdheswari Hills. It turns northward at their eastern extremity and passes near the town of

. Two miles south of Jamui it is joined by the Barnar, below this point it receives the Alai, a mountain stream, and near Jamui railway station it is joined by the Anjan. It then flows northeast up to

, passes below the railway bridge between

Kiul junction Kiul Junction railway station (station code: KIUL), is one of the major railway junctions in Danapur division of East Central Railway. Kiul is connected to metropolitan areas of India, by the Howrah–Delhi main line via Mugalsarai–Patna r ...

and Lakhisari station, and is joined a few miles north of that place, near Rahuaghat, by the Harohar (Halahar or Harhobar), a continuation of the Sakri River. After this it turns due east and falls into the Ganges near Surajgarha. Until it meets the Harohar the Kiul has broad sandy beds and in some places is as much as half a mile wide, though it contains very little water in summer. In the course of its run the river traverses a total length of and drains an area of .

Tal

The Mokamah group of ''tals'' lies in the Kiul-Harohar river basin and extends over an area of . It is a saucer shaped depression extending from

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in the west to Lakhisarai in the east. Its width varies from . It runs close to and almost parallel to the right bank of the

. The Harohar River which is the main outlet channel for the ''tal'' area flows eastward and drains into the Kiul River. The entire ''Tal'' area undergoes submergence every year during the monsoon period from June through September. At the end of the monsoon, the agricultural activities in the upper catchment of Kiul-Harohar suffer due to scarcity of

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water.

References

Rivers of Jharkhand Rivers of Bihar {{India-river-stub