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The
Western Coastal Plains stretch southward from the hot
and near-arid Kathiawar peninsula of Gujarat to the humid Malabar
coast of Kerala. In the north, these plains are bounded by the
part of the Thar Desert lying in Gujarat. To the northeast,
they are bound by the Aravalli hills, Malwa Plateau, and Vindhya
and Satpura ranges, and along the eastern stretch by the western
slopes of the Western Ghats all the way down from Gujarat through
Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka to Kerala. In Gujarat they cover,
entirely or partially, the districts of Junagadh, Amreli, Bhavnagar,
Surat and Valsad. In Maharashtra, they share the districts of
Thane, Kulaba and Ratnagiri with the Western Ghats. The same
situation exists in Goa, in the Uttar Kannada and Dakshin Kannada
districts of Karnataka, and in Cannanore, Kozhikode, Mallapuram,
Palghat, Trichur, Ernakulam, Kottayam, Quilon and Thiruvananthapuram
districts of Kerala. The Allepey district of Kerala lies almost
entirely in the Western Coastal Plains. All along these plains
there was a rich tradition of water harvesting, well documented
by the British in the last century.
Find more about
Techniques prevalent in this region
- Traditional
People
who harvest rain |
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