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{{Infobox river
| name = Kadva river
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| subdivision_name1 = [[India]]
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| subdivision_name2 = [[Maharashtra]]
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| subdivision_name4 = [[Nashik District|Nashik]]
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| subdivision_name5 = [[Niphad]]

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| source1 = [[Western Ghats|Sahyadris]]
| source1_location = [[Dindori, Maharashtra|Dindori Taluka]], Nashik District, Maharashtra
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| mouth = [[Godavari River]]
| mouth_location = Nandur Madhyameshwar, [[Nashik District|Nashik]], Maharashtra
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'''Kadva''' river is a minor but important tributary of [[Godavari]] in [[Nashik district]], Maharashtra, India. It originates and flows through the [[Dindori, Maharashtra|Dindori Taluka]] of Nashik District.

== Origin and course ==
The Kadva rises in the [[Western Ghats|Sahyadris]] to the north-west of [[Dindori, Maharashtra|Dindori Taluka]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Nasik/004%20General/001%20Geography.htm |title=NASIK DISTRICT GAZETTEERs |access-date=16 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170503161459/http://cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Nasik/004%20General/001%20Geography.htm |archive-date=3 May 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in the angle between the former and the [[Satmala Range]], and crosses Dindori from north-west to south-east.
It is rocky both in bed and bank, but the bed is wide, and the average volume of water is small compared with the area through which it flows. Irrigation works of considerable importance have been established on it.
At its confluence with Godavari, a pick-up weir has been constructed, raising the upstream water levels and resulting in the formation of the Nandur Madhyameshwar reservoir. The backwaters of this reservoir harbors rich flora & flora and have been deemed as the Nandur Madhyameshwar Bird Sanctuary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nashik.com/nandur-madhmeshwar-bird-sanctuary|title= Nandur Madhmeshwar Bird Sanctuary|website=Nashik.com|access-date=2015-10-17}}</ref> It witnesses migratory birds belonging to different species arriving here in huge numbers during the winter season.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://birdsanctuary.co.in/ |title=Nandur Madhmeshwar Bird Sanctuary |access-date=12 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151219082051/http://www.birdsanctuary.co.in/ |archive-date=19 December 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Total length of this river is 74 km<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/23522/7/07_chapter2.pdf|title=Chapter-II : PROFILE OF STUDY REGION|website=Shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in|access-date=12 December 2018}}</ref> up to Nandur Madhyameshwar Dam with a total drainage area of near about 1664 km<sup>2</sup>.

== Tributaries ==
The Kadva is joined by several tributary streams mostly from the north or the left bank. The Kadva is joined on the left bank by several streams draining the southern slopes of the Satmala ranges. The chief of those joining on the right bank is the Kolwan and Dhaman
*''Unanda'' : It is the first of these having a long course nearly parallel to the Satmalas and receives several small streams draining its slopes. Among these are the small Dev nadi flowing past Vani, on parashari river there is one minor dam which is tisgaon dam. That water is used for irrigation. The Parasheri river flowing by Pimpalgaon Basavant, its meat to kadava river near the shirasgaon village (niphad taluka), the Netravati nala flowing by Vadner, the Vainatha nadi joining it near Niphad and formed by the union of two rivers, the Vadali flowing by Vadali Bhoi and the Shelu. The [[Ozarkhed Dam]] has been built on the river Unanda.
*''Kolwan'' : It rises in the Sahyadris to the south of that river. At Waghad it is crossed by the [[Waghad Dam]] giving rise to the Waghad tank used for irrigation.
*''Dhaman'' : Further below it is joined by the ''Dhaman'' nadi from the south flowing past Dindori, at about two km. above its confluence with the Kadva near Rajapur.

== Dams ==
*[[Karanjwan Dam]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrsac.gov.in/sites/default/files/TH_NSK_Dindori.pdf|title=Village Map, Taluka: Dindori, District: Nahik|publisher=Maharashtra Remote Sensing Applications Centre|access-date=2015-10-17|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055536/http://www.mrsac.gov.in/sites/default/files/TH_NSK_Dindori.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Palkhed Dam]]

==See also==
{{portal|Environment|Ecology}}
*[[List of rivers of India]]
*[[List of major rivers of India|Rivers of India]]

==References==
{{Wikivoyage|Maharashtra}}
{{Reflist}}

{{Godavari basin}}
{{Hydrography of Maharashtra}}

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

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Jaffer sadiq at 01:36, 28 July 2025