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Sun Koshi
The Sunkoshi, also spelled Sunkosi, is a river that is part of the Koshi River, Koshi or Saptkoshi River system in Nepal. Sunkoshi has two river source, source streams, one that arises within Nepal in Choukati, and the other more significant stream that flows in from Nyalam County in the Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibet region of China. (See especially Figure 1). The latter is called Bhote Koshi in Nepal and Matsang Tsangpo in Tibet. Due to the significant flows from Bhote Koshi, the Sun Koshi river basin is often regarded as a trans-border river basin. River course The Sunkoshi's headwaters are located in the Zhangzangbo Glacier in Tibet.Mool, P. K.; Joshi, S. P.; Bajracharya, S. R. (2001). Glacial Lake Outburst Floods and Damage in the Country. Pages 121–136 in: Inventory of Glaciers, Glacial Lakes and Glacial Lake Outburst Floods: Monitoring and Early Warning Systems in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region, Nepal. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu. ...
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Sino-Nepal Friendship Bridge
The Sino-Nepal Friendship Bridge (; ) is a bridge spanning the Sun Kosi river, linking Kodari in Sindhulpalchok District, Nepal, and Zhangmu, China. Description Opened in 1964, the bridge was the only official border crossing between the two states until the 2010s. Depending on the source, it is , , or above sea level. The reinforced concrete arch bridge, with a prestressed concrete deck girder on top, was around wide and long. It was badly damaged during the April 2015 earthquake and had to be demolished. The quakes closed the route and turned the border trading towns into ghost villages. In 2016, there were some repairs on the route, but trading had not been restored to previous levels. First, it was replaced by a temporary bridge. Chinese companies then built a new, reportedly long and significantly wider, twin-pier reinforced concrete girder bridge alongside it, which opened in June 2019. Transport connection From the bridge on the Nepalese side, Kodari in Si ...
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River Basin
A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, the drainage divide, made up of a succession of elevated features, such as ridges and hills. A basin may consist of smaller basins that merge at river confluences, forming a hierarchical pattern. Other terms for a drainage basin are catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin, water basin, and impluvium. In North America, they are commonly called a watershed, though in other English-speaking places, " watershed" is used only in its original sense, that of the drainage divide line. A drainage basin's boundaries are determined by watershed delineation, a common task in environmental engineering and science. In a closed drainage basin, or endorheic basin, rather than flowing to the ocean, water converges toward the interio ...
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Dudh Kosi
Dudh Koshi (दुधकोशी नदी, ''Milk-Koshi River'') is a river in eastern Nepal. It is the highest river in terms of elevation. Dudh Koshi originates from the glacier lakes at the height of 5,100 meters above sea level and meets Sapta Koshi at the altitude of 1,245 meters. Koshi river system The Kosi River, or Sapt Koshi, drains eastern Nepal. It is known as Sapta Koshi because of the seven rivers which join together in east-central Nepal to form this river. The main rivers forming the Sapta Koshi River system are – the Sun Koshi (सुन कोशी)], the Indravati River, Nepal, Indravati River (इन्द्रावती), the tama Koshi (तामा कोशी), the Dudh Koshi (दुध कोशी), the Arun River (अरुण), Tamor River (तमोर) and Likhu River. The Dudh Kosi river originates from the high-altitude areas of Mount Everest (8848 metres) and the snow and glacier melt contributes significant portion of streamflow, especi ...
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol Au (from Latin ) and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a brightness, bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal, a group 11 element, and one of the noble metals. It is one of the least reactivity (chemistry), reactive chemical elements, being the second-lowest in the reactivity series. It is solid under standard temperature and pressure, standard conditions. Gold often occurs in free elemental (native state (metallurgy), native state), as gold nugget, nuggets or grains, in rock (geology), rocks, vein (geology), veins, and alluvial deposits. It occurs in a solid solution series with the native element silver (as in electrum), naturally alloyed with other metals like copper and palladium, and mineral inclusions such as within pyrite. Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, often with tellurium (gold tellurides). Gold is resistant to ...
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Nepali Language
Nepali (; , ), or ''Gorkhali'' is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia. It is the official and most widely spoken Languages of Nepal, language of Nepal, where it also serves as a ''lingua franca''. Nepali has Languages with official status in India, official status in the Indian state of Sikkim and in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration of West Bengal. It is spoken by about a quarter of Bhutan's population. Nepali also has a significant number of speakers in the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Uttarakhand. In Myanmar it is spoken by the Burmese Gurkhas. The Nepali diaspora in the Middle East, Brunei, Australia and worldwide also use the language. Nepali is spoken by approximately 19 million native speakers and another 14 million as a second language. Nepali is commonly classified within the Eastern Pahari group of the Northern Indo-Aryan languages, Northern zo ...
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Gangetic Plain
The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as the Northern Plain or North Indian River Plain, is a fertile plain spanning across the northern and north-eastern part of the Indian subcontinent. It encompasses northern and eastern India, eastern Pakistan, southern Nepal, and almost all of Bangladesh. It is named after the two major river systems that drain the region–Indus and Ganges. It stretches from the Himalayas in the north to the northern edge of the Deccan plateau in the south, and extends from North East India in the east to the Iranian border in the west. The region is home to many major cities and nearly one-seventh of the world's population. As the region was formed by the deposits of the three major rivers–Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra, the plains consists of the world's largest expanse of uninterrupted alluvium. Due to its rich water resources, it is one of the world's most densely populated and intensely farmed areas. History The region was home to the Indus Vall ...
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Chatra Gorge
The Chatra Gorge is a canyon cut by the Kosi River across the Mahabharat Range in Nepal. Kosi river system The Kosi, or Sapt Kosi, drains eastern Nepal. It is known as Sapt Koshi because of the seven rivers which join together in east-central Nepal to form this river. The main rivers forming the Kosi system are – the Sun Kosi, the Indravati River, the Bhote Koshi, the Dudh Kosi, the Arun River, Barun River, and Tamur River. The combined river flows through the Chatra gorge in a southerly direction to emerge from the hills. The Sun Kosi contributes 44 per cent of the total water in the Sapta Koshi, the Arun 37 per cent and the Tamur 19 per cent. Of the rivers that form the Sapta Kosi, the three main tributaries, Sun Kosi, Arun and Tamur converge at Tribeni and enter Chatra Gorge. The Gorge The Chatra Gorge is about 10 km long and is about 5–8 km wide. Downstream of the gorge, the river enters the alluvial plain An alluvial plain is a plain (an essenti ...
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Triveni, Nepal
Triveni is a town in Katari Municipality, Udayapur District, in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. The formerly Triveni village development committee was merged to form a new municipality in May 2014. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the main towns and villages of each ..., Triveni had a population of 6,015 people, living in 1,105 individual households. References External linksUN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District Populated places in Udayapur District {{Udayapur-geo-stub ...
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Arun River, Tibet-Nepal
Arun may refer to: People * Arun (given name) ** Arun (actor), Indian actor * Arun (surname) Places * Arun, Badakhshan, Afghanistan * Arun (England), a region of southeasthern England ** Arun District, West Sussex, England * Arun Banner, an administrative division (banner) of Inner Mongolia, China * Arun, Sumatra, a vassal state, now in Indonesia * Arun gas field, Sumatra, Indonesia * Aran va Bidgol ('Aran and Bidgol'), Isfahan Province, Iran ** Aran va Bidgol County * Arun rural municipality, Nepal * Wat Arun, a temple in Bangkok, Thailand Rivers and canals * Arun River, China–Nepal * River Arun, in West Sussex, England * Wey and Arun Canal, in the south east of England Other uses * Aruṇa, a god in Hinduism * ''Arun''-class lifeboat * , two ships of the Royal Navy * Arun, a fictional character played by Sachin Pilgaonkar in the Indian films ''Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se'' (1978) and '' Jaana Pehchana'' (2011) See also * * * Aaron (other) Aaron is the bro ...
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Sunkoshi River In Nepal, Photographed On December 5, 2023
Sunkoshi may refer to: River *Sun Koshi, a tributary of the Koshi river in Eastern Nepal Rural municipalities * Sunkoshi, Okhaldhunga, a rural municipality in Okhaldhunga District, Nepal * Sunkoshi, Sindhupalchok a rural municipality in Sindhupalchok District, Nepal * Sunkoshi, Sindhuli a rural municipality in Sindhuli District Sindhuli District (), a part of the Bagmati Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal, a landlocked country located in South Asia. The district, with Sindhulimadhi Kamalamai as its headquarters, covers an area of . As per the 20 ..., Nepal Other * Sunkoshi Small Hydropower Plant, a hydropower plant in Nepal * Sunkoshi Hydropower Station, a hydropower station in Nepal * Sunkoshi Marin Diversion Project a river diversion project in Nepal {{disambiguation, geo ...
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Sediment
Sediment is a solid material that is transported to a new location where it is deposited. It occurs naturally and, through the processes of weathering and erosion, is broken down and subsequently sediment transport, transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles. For example, sand and silt can be carried in suspension (chemistry), suspension in river water and on reaching the sea bed deposited by sedimentation; if buried, they may eventually become sandstone and siltstone (sedimentary rocks) through lithification. Sediments are most often transported by water (fluvial, fluvial processes), but also wind (aeolian processes) and glaciers. Beach sands and stream channel, river channel deposits are examples of fluvial transport and deposition (geology), deposition, though sediment also often settles out of slow-moving or standing water in lakes and oceans. Desert sand dunes and loess are examples of aeolian transport and deposition. ...
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Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya ( ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. More than list of highest mountains on Earth, 100 peaks exceeding elevations of above sea level lie in the Himalayas. The Himalayas abut on or cross territories of Himalayan states, six countries: Nepal, China, Pakistan, Bhutan, India and Afghanistan. The sovereignty of the range in the Kashmir region is disputed among India, Pakistan, and China. The Himalayan range is bordered on the northwest by the Karakoram and Hindu Kush ranges, on the north by the Tibetan Plateau, and on the south by the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Some of the world's major rivers, the Indus River, Indus, the Ganges river, Ganges, and the Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tsangpo–Brahmaputra River, Brahmaputra, rise in the vicinity of the Himalayas, and their combined drainage basin is home to some 6 ...
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