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Tapi


Having a length of 700 km and a basin area of 66,900 sq km, the river Tapi rises from the Satpura Range and flows westward almost parallel to Satpura. At Khandwa-Burhanpur Gap, the Narmada and Tapi come close to each other. Below Jalgaon , the river, like the Narmada, flows in a rift valley but in a much constricted form between the Satpura Range to the north and the Ajanta Range to tire south. Below the city of Surat, it makes an estuary and merges into the Gulf of Khambat.