Ravi,
one of the “Five Rivers” of the Punjab.
It rises in the Kulu subdivision of Kangra district, Punjab (India), and
flows through Chamba, the isolated northern division of Himachal Pradesh. Turning southwest it briefly enters Jammu
(Kashmir), traverses the Gurdaspur district (Punjab, India), then forms the
India-Pakistan frontier before finally crossing into the Pakistan province of
Punjab about 15 mi North East of Lahore, within a mile of which later
passes. Flowing across the Punjab
plains, it finally falls into the Chenab about 10 mi South of Ahmadpur after a
course of about 450 mi. Its water is
used for the irrigation of the Bari doab.
Though Upper Bari doab canal (1859), with headworks at Madhupur on the
Indian side of the frontier, serves about 1,177,000 ac. and the Lower Bari doab
canal (completed 1917), with headworks on the left bank of the Ravi at Balloki,
about 345,000ac. The waters of the Ravi
are supplemented for the irrigation of the lower doab by canals leading from
the Jhelum and the upper Chenab. The
Sidhnai canal, beginning about 10 mi. above the Chenab junction, was frequently
dry in winter until the construction of the Haveli canal (1939), delivering
water to the Ravi from the Trimmu barrage at the Chenab-Jhelum confluence. In Sanskrit it is called ''REVAA.''
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