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===Mountain ghats === |
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[[File:Konkan - Western Ghats - Scenes from India's Konkan Railway 104.JPG|right|thumb|Western Ghats]]The word ''ghati'' ({{Lang-hi|घाटी}}) means valley.<ref name=ghatimean1>[https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/hindi-english/%E0%A4%98%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%80 Ghati meaning], Hindi-English Collins dictionary.</ref> In [[Marathi language|Marathi]], Hindi, [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] and [[Kannada]], ''ghat'' is a term used to identify a difficult passage over a mountain.<ref>{{cite dictionary |title=Navneet Marathi English Dictionary |publisher=Navneet Publications (India) Limited |location=Mumbai 400028 |url=http://www.navneet.com/mainpage/contactus.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124025354/http://navneet.com/mainpage/contactus.asp |archive-date=2009-01-24 }}</ref> One such passage is the [[Bhor Ghat]] that connects the towns [[Khopoli]] and [[Khandala]], on [[National Highway 4 (India, old numbering)|NH 4]] about {{convert|80|km}} north of [[Mumbai]]. [[Charmadi]] Ghat of Karnataka is also notable. In many cases, the term is used to refer to a mountain range itself, as in the ''[[Western Ghats]]'' and ''[[Eastern Ghats]]''. 'Ghattam' in Malayalam also refers to mountain ranges when used with the name of the ranges being addressed (e.g., paschima ghattam for Western Ghats), while the passage road would be called a 'churam'. [[Eastern Ghats]] on the east coast of India and [[Western Ghats]] on the west coast of India are the largest ghats in pensular India.<ref name="RWH">{{cite web|title=The Eastern Coastal Plain|url=http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/eco/ecp.htm|publisher=Rainwaterharvesting.org|access-date=19 November 2008}}</ref> |
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Western Ghats, also known as ''Sahyadri'' (Benevolent Mountains), is a mountain range covers an area of 140,000 km² in a stretch of 1,600 km parallel to the western coast of the [[India]]n [[peninsula]], traverse the States of [[Kerala]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Karnataka]], [[Goa]], [[Maharashtra]] and [[Gujarat]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Western Ghats|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1342}}</ref> It is a [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]] and is one of the eight "hottest hot-spots" of biological diversity in the world.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities|journal=Nature|year=2000|volume=403|doi=10.1038/35002501|last1=Myers|first1=Norman|last2=Mittermeier|first2=Russell A.|last3=Mittermeier|first3=Cristina G.|last4=Da Fonseca|first4=Gustavo A. B.|last5=Kent|first5=Jennifer|issue=6772|pages=853–858|pmid=10706275|bibcode=2000Natur.403..853M|s2cid=4414279}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |
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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131192257/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-02/flora-fauna/32507340_1_world-heritage-list-western-ghats-border-town |
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|title=UN designates Western Ghats as world heritage site|date=2 July 2012|newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |
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}}</ref> It is sometimes called the Great [[Escarpment]] of India.<ref>{{cite book|last=Migon|first=Piotr|title=Geomorphological Landscapes of the World|date=12 May 2010|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-90-481-3054-2|page=257}}</ref> It is a biodiversity hotspot that contains a large proportion of the country's flora and fauna; many of which are only found here and nowhere else in the world.<ref>{{citation|title=A biodiversity hotspot|url=http://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/where_we_work/western_ghats/}}</ref> According to [[UNESCO]], Western Ghats are older than Himalayan mountains. It also influences Indian monsoon weather patterns by |
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intercepting the rain-laden monsoon winds that sweep in from the south-west during late summer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Western Ghats|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1342}}</ref> 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]], ten in [[Karnataka]], five in [[Tamil Nadu]] and four in [[Maharashtra]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1342/multiple=1&unique_number=1921|title=Western Ghats|work=[[UNESCO]]|access-date=3 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Clara|last=Lewis|date=3 July 2012|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-03/mumbai/32523277_1_radhanagari-wildlife-world-heritage-centre-western-ghats|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707023508/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-03/mumbai/32523277_1_radhanagari-wildlife-world-heritage-centre-western-ghats|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 July 2012|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|title=39 sites in Western Ghats get world heritage status |access-date=21 February 2013}}</ref> [[Marathi people#Ghati people|Ghati people]], literally means the ''people of hills or ghats (valleys)'', is an [[exonym]] used for the marathi people specially those from the villages in [[Western Ghats]], often in pejorative terms.<ref name=ghati2>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bBG_QmivOWgC&dq=ghati+people&pg=PA110 >Bombay Teachers and the Cultural Role of Cities], Page 110.</ref><ref name=ghati1>[https://www.firstpost.com/living/of-ghati-bhaiyya-and-yandu-gundu-mumbai-has-huge-diversity-in-its-pejoratives-2640836.html Of 'ghati', 'bhaiyya' & 'yandu gundu': Mumbai has huge diversity in its pejoratives], First Post, 26 Feb 2019.</ref><ref name=ghati3>Guruprasad Datar, 2018, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zcxYDwAAQBAJ&dq=ghati+people&pg=PT90 Stereotypes],</ref> |
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The Eastern Ghats are a discontinuous range of mountains along [[India]]'s eastern coast. The Eastern Ghats run from the northern [[Odisha]] through [[Andhra Pradesh]] to [[Tamil Nadu]] in the south passing some parts of [[Karnataka]] and in the [[Wayanad district|Wayanad region]] of Kerala. They are eroded and cut through by four major rivers of peninsular India, viz. [[Godavari River|Godavari]], [[Mahanadi]], [[Krishna River|Krishna]], and [[Kaveri]]. The mountain ranges run parallel to the [[Bay of Bengal]]. The [[Deccan Plateau]] lies to the west of the range, between the Eastern Ghats and the Western Ghats. The [[coastal plain]]s, including the [[Coromandel Coast]] region, lie between the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal. The Eastern Ghats are not as high as the [[Western Ghats]]. The Eastern Ghats are older than the Western Ghats, and have a complex geologic history related to the assembly and breakup of the ancient [[supercontinent]] of [[Rodinia]] and the assembly of the [[Gondwana]] supercontinent. The Eastern Ghats are made up of [[charnockite]]s, [[granite]] [[gneiss]], [[khondalite]]s, [[metamorphic]] [[gneiss]]es and [[quartzite]] rock formations. The structure of the Eastern Ghats includes [[Thrust fault|thrusts]] and [[strike-slip fault]]s<ref>{{cite journal | url = https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FBF03052185.pdf#page-1 | doi=10.1007/BF03052185 |journal = Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Section B |
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| date = November 1967| volume= 66| issue= 5| pages= 200–205 |
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|title = Geology of Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh| last1=Sriramadas | first1=A. | s2cid=126925893 }}</ref> all along its range. [[Limestone]], [[bauxite]] and [[iron ore]] are found in the Eastern Ghats hill ranges. |
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===River ghats === |
===River ghats === |
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