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The Gulf of Khambhat, historically known as the Gulf of Cambay, is a bay on the Arabian Sea coast of India, bordering the state of Gujarat just north of the city of Mumbai.[1] The Gulf of Khambhat is about Template:Convert long, about Template:Convert wide in the north and up to Template:Convert wide in the south. Major rivers draining Gujarat are the Narmada, Tapti, Mahi and Sabarmati that form estuaries in the gulf.[2]
It divides the Kathiawar Peninsula from the south-eastern part of Gujarat.[3][4][5]
There are plans to construct a Template:Convert dam, Kalpasar Project, across the gulf.[6]
Wildlife
To the west of the Gulf, Asiatic lions inhabit the Gir Forest National Park and its surroundings, the region of Kathiawar or Saurashtra.[3][7] To the east of the Gulf, the Dangs' Forest and Shoolpaneshwar Wildlife Sanctuary, where Gujarat meets Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, used to host Bengal tigers.[8]
See also
- City of Khambhat
- Coral reefs in India
- Dumas Beach
- Marine archaeology in the Gulf of Cambay
- Marine National Park, Gulf of Kutch
References
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- ↑ Saha, S., Banerjee, S., Burley, S.D., Ghosh, A. and Saraswati, P.K. (2010). The influence of flood basaltic source terrains on the efficiency of tectonic setting discrimination diagrams: an example from the Gulf of Khambhat, western India. Sedimentary Geology 228 (1): 1–13.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wild Cats: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group(1996). ISBN 2-8317-0045-0
- ↑ Trivedi, P. and Soni, V. C. (2012). Significant bird records and local extinctions in Purna and Ratanmahal Wildlife Sanctuaries, Gujarat, India Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Jhala, Y. V., Qureshi, Q., Sinha, P. R. (Eds.) (2011). Status of tigers, co-predators and prey in India, 2010. National Tiger Conservation Authority, Government of India, New Delhi, and Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. TR 2011/003.
- ↑ The Gulf of Khambhat Development Project. Gujarat. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
- ↑ Asiatic Lion population up from 411 to 523 in five years(2015-05-10). Retrieved 2016-11-26.
- ↑ Tiger ecology and conservation in the Indian subcontinent. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society({Template:Year).
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