Ghaggar-Hakra River
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The Ghaggar-Hakra River is an intermittent river in India and Pakistan that flows in force only during the monsoon season. The river is known as Ghaggar before the Ottu barrage, and as Hakra downstrea
Aerial view of Ghaggar river near Chandigarh
The Ghaggar river flows into the Ottu reservoir, afterwards it becomes the Hakra river
Ghaggar river's dry bed in February near Naurangdesar village, Hanumangarh district, Rajasthan, India
Ghaggar river, near Anoopgarh, Rajasthan in the month of September
Thar Desert
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The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent stretching across India and Pakistan. Covering an area of 264,091 km2, it
Ghaggar-Hakra River
…flows in force only during the monsoon season. The river is known as Ghaggar before the Ottu barrage, and as Hakra downstream of the barrage in the Thar Desert. In pre-Harappan times the Ghaggar was a tributary of the Sutlej. It is still connected to this paleochannel of the Sutlej, and possibly the Yamuna…
The Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India
The vedic and present-day course of Ghaggar-Hakra River as proposed by Clift et al. (2012) and Khonde et al. (2017). 1 = ancient river; 2 = today's river; 3 = Thar desert; 4 = ancient shore; 5 = today's shore; 6 = today's settlements; 7 = dried-up Harappan Hakkra course, and pre-Harappan Sutlej paleochannels
A taanka used to store rainwater
Sand dunes in the Thar Desert