THE HIMALAYAN

MOUNTAINS

INTERNALS ASSESSSMENT
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MOUNTAIN RANGES
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INTRODUCTION ON
HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS

 The Himalayas are a mountain range , separating the plains of

the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau .
The Himalayas form a physical barrier between the INDIAN
subcontinent and the central and the east ASIAN countries .
 The HIMALAYAS are young and fold mountains.
 They are spread over a distance of nearly 2400 km and form an
arc their width varies from 400 km in KASHMIR to 150 km in
ARUNACHAL PRADESH .
Longitudinal division
of HIMALAYAS

ALL THREE TYPE OF HIMALAYAS -

1 THE HIMADRI
2 THE SIWALIKS
3 THE HIMACHAL
 THE
HIMADRI
Himadri is the
The Great Himalayan
Himalayan northernmost
fold are  in form. Granite
range, which is always
makes up the core of this
covered with snow
Himalayan region.
throughout the year.

The average elevation is

6,100 meteres above sea
level, with a breadth of
around 25 kilometeres.
 THE HIMACHAL

It is the most It is mainly made

It is located to the
rugged mountain up of highly
south of Himadri.
system. compressed rocks.

Its altitude ranges

Its average width is
between 3,700 and
about 50 Km.
4,500 meters.
 The SHIWALIKS
MOUNTAINS
• Shiwalik Range, also called Shiwalik Hills or Outer Himalayas,
Siwalik also spelled SHIWALIKS, sub-Himalayan range of the
northern Indian subcontinent.
• The southernmost range of the Himalayan system is known as
SHIWALIKS hills.
•  The average altitude of the SHIWALIKS Ranges varies between
900 to 1100m. 
• The area between SHIWALIKS and the lesser Himalayas consist
of a number of valleys.
•  These valleys are more or less parallel to the ranges and are
known as Duns.
All 3
Himalayas
on map-
 Punjab Himalayas: between rivers Indus and Sutlej .
five
subdivision KUMAUN  Himalayas: between rivers Sutlej and Kali .

of Assam Himalayas: between rivers Teesta and Dihang .

HIMALAY PURVANCHAL: beyond the Dihang river .

A KASHMIR HIMALAYA : NEAR PIR PANJAL RANGE

 Punjab Himalayas

• Between the Indus and the SATLUJ rivers [560 km long].

• All the major rivers of Indus river system flow through Punjab
Himalayas.
• A large portion of Punjab Himalayas is in Jammu and Kashmir
and Himachal Pradesh.
• Karakoram, Ladakh, Pir PANJAL, Zaskar and DHAOLA,
Dhar are the major ranges in this section.
 KUMAUN HIMALA
YA
KUMAUN HIMALAYAS, west-
The range, comprising part of
central section of
the SHIWALIK in the south and
the HIMALAYAS in
part of the Great Himalayas in
northern INDIA, extending 200
the north, lies largely within the
miles (320 km) from
state of UTTRAKHAND,
the SUTLAJ east to the Kali
northwest of Nepal.
River. 

It rises to 25,646 feet (7,817

meters) at NANDA DEVI, the
range’s highest peak, and to
25,446 feet (7,756 meters) at
Kamet, near the Chinese border
 Assam
HIMALAYAS
• Assam Himalayas, eastern section of the Great HIMALAYAS,
extending eastward across Sikkim state (India) and BHUTAN,
into northern Assam and Arunachal Pradesh  states (India), and
along the border with the TIBET Autonomous Region (China). 
• The mountains run eastward for 450 miles (720 km) from the
upper Tista River in the west to the great southward bend of
the Brahmaputra River IN EAST
• Important peaks include Kula, Chomo, and Kangto; the highest
is Namjagbarwa (25,445 feet [7,756 metres]) in Tibet. 
PURVANCHAL
HIMALAYAS
i. It is a sub-mountain range of Himalayas. These
Himalayas lie in the Northeast and south of Brahmaputra
river.

ii. It includes five major hills- Patkai hills, Barail range,

Manipur, Mizo, and Naga Hills.

iii. These mountains are included in the states of Assam,

Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura, Nagaland,
Meghalaya and Mizoram.
 KASHMIR
HIMALAYAS
• The Kashmir or North-Western Himalayas is a
mountainous grassland and shrubland ecoregion found in the
heights of Kashmir or the northwestern part of Indian
Himalayas. 
• Between the Greater Himalayas and the Karakoram ranges,
the northeastern half of the Kashmir Himalayas is a frigid
desert.
• This region also has important South Asian glaciers such as
the Baltoro and Siachen.
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