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The '''Girna River''' is a river in the state of [[Maharashtra]] in western [[India]]. It gets its name from the goddess Giraja, also known as [[Parvati]].

The Girna originates at Kem Peak in the [[Western Ghats]] mountain range and flows east across [[Nashik District]]—where it is joined by the [[Mausam River]]—and into [[Malegaon]]. It then swings north to join the [[Tapti River]]. The biggest dams on it are [[Chankapur Dam]] (built by the British near [[Abhona]] in the [[Kalwan]] ''tehsil'', where the Sarpganga River joins the Girna) and [[Girna Dam]] (built in 1969).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://india-wris.nrsc.gov.in/wrpinfo/index.php?title=Girna_D01026 |title=Girna D01026 |access-date=February 28, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106041049/http://india-wris.nrsc.gov.in/wrpinfo/index.php?title=Girna_D01026 |archive-date=January 6, 2014 }}</ref> The river basin lies on the [[Deccan Plateau]], and its valley has [[fertile soil]] that is intensively farmed.

==About river==
The ''[[Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency]]'' described the course of the river as follows:<ref>http://mpcb.gov.in/ereports/pdf/GirnaRiverReport_.pdf Girna river report</ref>

{{Quote|text=Rising in the western hills of the Kalvan sub-division of Nasik, and fed by streams from the northern slopes of the Chandor or Saptashring range, after a course of about 150 miles, falls into the Tapti near Savda-Nanded. Its course lies in nearly equal parts in Nasik and Khandesh. Passing through Nasik almost in a straight line eastwards, in Khandesh its course changes to north-east, till, near Jalgaon, it bends north and then north-west flowing for several miles with many windings almost parallel to the Tapti. In [[Khandesh]], except in one or two places where it is hemmed in by rocky hills, the Girna, over a broad sandy bed, flows through a well tilled valley gradually spreading into the great central plain. Its waters, both in Nasik and Khandesh, are much used for irrigation. In Nasik lately repaired dams and channels water many of its upland valleys, and in Khandesh, from Eahal about ten miles north of Chalisgaon, the Jamda canals stretch east for about twenty-seven miles on the left and twelve miles on the right bank.|sign=|source=}}

==See also==
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*[[List of rivers of India]]
*[[List of major rivers of India|Rivers of India]]

==External links==
* [http://nihroorkee.gov.in/rbis/basin%20maps/Tapi/girna.htm Girna River] at (NIH), Roorkee

==References==
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{{Hydrography of Maharashtra}}

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[[Category:Rivers of Maharashtra]]
[[Category:Tributaries of the Tapti River]]

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