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The river Ghaggar, a river of the northern India is India's
main seasonal river. The Ghaggar rises in the Shivalik Range, northwestern
Himachal Pradesh ,
and flows about 200 miles (320 km) southwest through Pinjore in the state
of Haryana, where it receives the Saraswati River. It rises up in the
outer Himalayas between the Yamuna and the Sutluj and enters Haryana near
Pinjore. Passing through Ambala
and Hissar it reaches Bikaner in Rajasthan and
runs a course of 290 miles before finally disintegrating in the deserts of
Rajasthan.
It eventually loses itself in the sands of the
Thar
Desert . Just southwest of Sirsa, it feeds
two irrigation canals that extend into
Rajasthan . The
Ghaggar was probably once an affluent of the Indus River. Its seasonal
flow is dependent on monsoon rainfall.