The Wakal River is a tributary to the

Sabarmati River The Sabarmati River is one of the major west-flowing rivers in India. It originates in the Aravalli Range of the Udaipur District of Rajasthan and meets the Gulf of Khambhat of the Arabian Sea after travelling in a south-westerly direction acr ...

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; Literal translation, lit. 'Land of Kings') is a States and union territories of India, state in northwestern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the List of states and union territories of ...

and

Gujarat Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the List of states and union territories ...

states of India.

Course

The river originates in the south-western spurs of the

Aravalli range The Aravalli Range (also spelled ''Aravali'') is a mountain range in North India, Northern-Western India, running approximately in a south-west direction, starting near Delhi, passing through southern Haryana and Rajasthan, and ending in Ahme ...

, and meets the Sabarmati River after traversing a distance of 158 kilometres. The Mansi and Parvi are two main tributaries of the Wakal River.

Watershed

The area of the Wakal River's watershed is 1851 square kilometres, and is spread out over Udaipur district of Rajasthan and

Sabarkantha district Sabarkantha district is one of the 33 districts of Gujarat state of India, located in the Northeast India, northeastern part of the state. The administrative headquarters of the district are located in Himatnagar and the National Highway no. 48 pa ...

of Gujarat. 98% of the basin area lies in Rajasthan, the remainder in Gujarat. The mean annual surface water yield for the basin is 319.4 million cubic metres. There are 24 minor irrigation projects in the watershed, with a total live storage capacity of 65.98 million cubic metres. The Mansi Wakal Dam is the largest dam in the basin.

References

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