Tinau River
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The Tinau is a river originating from the Mahabharat Mountains and flowing through the Siwalik Hills and Terai Plain at Butwal, Nepal before joining the Ganges.
==River morphology== The main stem of the Tinau River originates at an altitude of 1300m. The length of the Tinau is 95 km starting from Palpa to Indo-Nepal Border at Marchawar. The catchment area of the river is about 1081 sq. km up to the border of which 412 km2 (41200 ha.) are in the Terai and 669 km2 of mountainous area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tinau River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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