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Yamuna, also called as Jamuna, originates from the Bundar
Poonch glaciers in district
Uttarkashi
. It rises from Jamunotri, in the Himalayas. River Tons, which flows along
the boundary of Himachal
Pradesh , west of district Tehri Garhwal joins Yamuna River at Kalsi
and thereafter joins the plains. From Kalsi, the river flows along the
boundary of Himachal
Pradesh .
Yamuna flows in a southerly direction through the Himalayan foothills and
onto the northern Indian plain, along the Uttar Pradesh-Haryana State
border. The Eastern and Western Yamuna canals are fed from the river at
that point.
Near Mathura
it turns southeastward and passes
Agra , Firozabad, and
Etawah. Below Etawah it receives a number of southern tributaries, the
largest of which are the Chambal, the Sindh, the Betwa, and the Ken. Near
Allahabad
, after a course of about 855 miles (1,376 km), the Yamuna joins the
Ganges River; their confluence is a sacred place to Hindus.
