Mountain Ranges In India

Purvachal Range

• Purvanchal mountains also known as Eastern mountains.
• They are the eastern extension of Himalayas.
• The Purvanchal hills lies in the north easternmost part of India lying near Myanmar.
• They cover the states of Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram.
• The garo- khasi and jaintia hills lie in this range.
• They consist of the Patkai, Naga, Manipur and Mizo hills too.

Aravalli Range

• The Aravali Range literally meaning 'line of peaks', is a range of mountains in western India.
• Old name: Arbudanchal.
• More than 80% of Aravalli ranges lies in Rajasthan.
• Haldighati is a mountain pass in the Aravalli Range of Rajasthan
• It is located approximately 800 km in a northeastern direction across Indian states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi.
• The Aravalli range are the oldest fold mountains in India.
• The famous Delhi Ridge is the last leg of the Aravalli Range.
• Mount Abu is the one and only hill station in Aravalli.
• Mount Abu is popular for Dilwara Jain temple and Karnimatha temple.
• The highest peak in Aravalli is Guru Shikhar(1722 meters) in Mount Abu in Rajasthan.
• Mount Abu was known as ‘Hill of Wisdom’ in Mahabharatha.
• Numerous rivers rise amidst the ranges including the Banas River, the Luni River, the Sahibi, the Sakhi, and the Sabarmati River.
• Thar desert lies on the western part of Aravalli.
• Ajmir and Udaypur are the two main cities in Aravalli ranges.
• Udaypur is known as City of Lakes.

Vindhya-Sathpura Range

• The Vindhya Range refers to a complex, discontinuous chain of mountain ridges, hill ranges, highlands and plateau escarpments in west-central India.
• The highest point of the Vindhyas is the Sad-bhawna  ("Goodwill Peak") Shikhar also known as the Kalumar peak or Kalumbe peak, it lies near Singrampur in the Damoh district.
• The Satpura Range is a mountain range that parallels the Vindhya Range to the north, the range running through  Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh to the Chhattisgarh.
• The highest peak in Satpra Range is Dhupgarh(1350m) in Madhyapradesh.
• Panchmarhi located in Mahadeo hills is known as ‘Queen of Sathpura’.
•  These two east-west ranges divide Indian Subcontinent into the Indo-Gangetic plain of northern India and the Deccan Plateau of the south.
•  The Narmada River originates from north-eastern end of Satpura & runs in the depression between the Satpura and Vindhya ranges.
• The Narmada also called the Rewa.
• The Tapti River originates from eastern-central part of Satpura.
• Narmada and Tapti are two of the rivers in India that flows in a rift valley.
• The other rivers which flow through rift valley include Damodar River in Chota Nagpur Plateau.
• Most part of these ranges lies in Madhyapradesh.

Western Ghats

• The Western Ghats are a mountain range that runs almost parallel to the western coast of the Indian peninsula.
• It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the eight "hottest hotspots" of biological diversity in the world.
• It is sometimes called the Great Escarpment of India.
• The range runs north to south along the western edge of the Deccan Plateau, and separates the plateau from a narrow coastal plain, called Konkan, along the Arabian Sea.
• A total of thirty nine properties including national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and reserve forests were designated as world heritage sites - twenty in Kerala.
• The range starts near the border of Gujarat and ending at Kanyakumari.
• Also known as  Sahyadri.
• Highest peak: Anamudi(2695m).
• Anamudi located in Devikulam (Monnar),Iduki.
• The second highest peak in Western Ghat: Doddabetta(2637m), Niligiris, Tamilnadu.
• The second highest peak of Western Ghat in Kerala: Agasthyamala(1868), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
• Western Ghat and Eastern Ghat meets at Nilgiri.

Eastern Ghats

• The Eastern Ghats, or Pūrva Ghaṭ, also known as Mahendra Pravata are a discontinuous range of mountains along India's eastern coast.
• The Eastern Ghats run from West Bengal state in the north, through Odisha and Andhra Pradesh to Tamil Nadu in the south passing some parts of Karnataka.
• They are eroded and cut through by the four major rivers of peninsular India, known as the Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna, and Kaveri.
• The mountain ranges run parallel to the Bay of Bengal.
• The Eastern Ghats are not as high as the Western Ghats..
• The hill station of Yercaud is located in the Shevaroy Hills.
• There are waterfalls in remote areas, such as the Kiliyur Falls.
• Tirupati hills lies on Eastern Ghats.
• The main hill range starts from Nandigama to Vijayawada known as Kondapalli.
• The highest peak of the Eastern Ghats - Arma Konda (1680 m).
• Rivers flowing through Eastern Ghats-Godavari, Krishna, Tungabhadra, Mahanadi, Kaveri