{"id":755,"date":"2019-06-04T12:13:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T12:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chardhamtour.in\/blog\/?p=755"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:31:46","slug":"ganga-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chardhamtour.in\/blog\/ganga-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganga River in Uttarakhand"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ganga starts as meltwater at Gaumukh<\/a>, a glacial cave-mouth in Uttarakhand, and ends nearly 2,525 km away in the Sundarbans. It isn’t called the Ganga at its source \u2014 that name only applies after Devprayag<\/a>. Most people driving the Char Dham route<\/a> don’t know this. If you’re heading toward Gangotri<\/a>, Rishikesh<\/a> or Haridwar<\/a>, the distinction matters, because it changes what you’re actually looking at when you stop at any of these places.<\/p>\n

The Ganga’s source stream, the Bhagirathi<\/a>, emerges at Gaumukh, the snout of the Gangotri Glacier in Uttarakhand<\/a>, at an elevation of about 3,892 metres. It’s called the Bhagirathi until Devprayag, where it meets the Alaknanda River \u2014 only from that confluence onward is it officially the Ganga. The river then runs roughly 2,525 km (measured along the Bhagirathi and Hooghly) through five main-stem states before reaching the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n

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