Bagmati (river)
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Bagmati Kareh |
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| location | Nepal , Bihar ( India ) | |
| River system | Ganges | |
| Drain over | Koshi → Ganges → Indian Ocean | |
| source | at the northern edge of the Kathmandu valley 27 ° 46 '24 " N , 85 ° 25' 35" E |
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| Source height | approx. 1500 m | |
| muzzle | in Bihar in the Koshi coordinates: 25 ° 32 ′ 36 " N , 86 ° 43 ′ 6" E 25 ° 32 ′ 36 " N , 86 ° 43 ′ 6" E
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| length | 589 km (including 195 km in Nepal) | |
| Catchment area | 14,384 km² (of which 6320 km² in India) | |
| Left tributaries | Manohara , Lakhandei | |
| Right tributaries | Bishnumati , Kamala | |
| Big cities | Kathmandu | |
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The Bagmati ( Nepali : बागमती , Bāgmatī ; also Kareh ) is a river in Nepal and India .
It rises on the northern edge of the Kathmandu valley and flows south past the old town of Kathmandu . The Bagmati takes in all other waters of the Kathmandu valley and leaves the valley in the south in the gorge of Chobar . The river is very heavily polluted as almost all sewage in the metropolitan area of Kathmandu with well over a million inhabitants is discharged into it. Because it flows into the Ganges at the end of its course , it is also of great religious significance for the majority Hindu population of Nepal. The temple complex of Pashupatinath , in which corpses are burned according to the Hindu rite, is located on its banks . At Dheng the river crosses the border to India and flows into the Koshi in the state of Bihar , which flows into the Ganges.
