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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.
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