{"id":765,"date":"2019-06-10T10:33:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T10:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chardhamtour.in\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:44:23","slug":"yamuna-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chardhamtour.in\/blog\/yamuna-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamuna River, Uttarakhand"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yamuna carries more religious weight than almost any river in India, and more untreated sewage than almost any stretch of water near a national capital. Both things are true at the same time, and neither cancels the other out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also known as Jumna or Jamna \u2014 not the Jamuna that runs through Bangladesh \u2014 the Yamuna rises in the Garhwal Himalaya and flows about 1,376 km before meeting the Ganga<\/a> at Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj<\/a>, the site of the Kumbh Mela. For most Hindus, she isn’t simply a river. She’s Yami, sister of Yama, and the river that ran through Krishna’s childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quick answer:<\/b> The Yamuna’s glacial source is the Champasar Glacier on Kalind Parvat, near Yamunotri in Uttarakhand<\/a>, at about 4,421 m. It runs roughly 1,376 km through Uttarakhand, Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh before joining the Ganga at Prayagraj. She’s sacred and she’s badly polluted \u2014 mainly through the 22-km stretch that runs through Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n

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