ORIGIN OF RIVER GANGA

The river starts from a glacier called Gangotri Glacier, which is

in the Garhwal region in Himalayas. The Ganges flows through
north India, and ends at the Bay of Bengal in eastern India.
Overall it flows 3,877 km making it one of the longest rivers in
the world. Its watershed is 907,000 km² broad. The major
rivers which flow into the Ganges are Brahmaputra River,
Gomti, Kosi river, Gandak, Ghaghra river, Yamuna river and
Son river.The Ganges flows only 200 km through the
Himalayas. The river touches plain land in the Rishikesh region
near Haridwar in Uttarakhand. Then it passes through the
towns of Kanpur, Soron, Kannauj, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna,
Ghazipur, Bhagalpur, Mirzapur, Ballia, Buxar, Saidpur, and
Chunar. At Allahabad, the river joins with Yamuna river. At
Pakur, the river divides itself into two distributaries, viz.- the
Bhagirathi-Hooghly and the main stream. Bhagirathi-Hooghly
in the later course forms the Hooghly River. The main stream
Ganges enters Bangladesh. Near the border with Bangladesh
the Farakka Barrage controls the flow of the Ganges by
diverting some of the water into a feeder canal which has link
with the Hooghly river to keep it relatively silt-free. The river
breaks up into multiples branches at its delta.