Himalaya Mountains
A simplified representation of the location of the Himalayan Mountains The Himalayas is a mountain system that separates the Indian subcontinent from Central Asia and Tibet. This mountain system is mainly made up of three parallel ranges — the Great Himalayas, the Middle Himalayas and the Shivalik, which extends from west to east in an arc shape approximately 2400 km in length. The rise of this arc is towards the south ie the plains of northern India and the centre towards the plateau of Tibet. Apart from these three main categories, the fourth and most northern category is called Para Himalaya or Trans Himalaya which includes Karakoram and Kailash ranges. The Himalayan mountains are spread over the borders of five countries. These countries are Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan and China. A picture of the Himalayas taken from space, most of the high mountain peaks of the world are located in the Himalayas. Himalayan peaks are among the 100 highest peaks in the world. Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, is a peak in the Himalayas. There are more than 100 mountain peaks in the Himalayas that are over 7200 meters high. Some of the most prominent peaks of the Himalayas are Sagarmatha Himal, Annapurna, Ganay, Langatung, Manaslu, Ralvaling, Jugal, Gaurishankar, Kumbhu, Dhaulagiri and Kanchenjunga. There are more than 15 thousand glaciers in the Himalayan range, which are spread over 12 thousand square kilometres. The 72 km long Siachen glacier is the second longest glacier in the world. Some of the major rivers of the Himalayas include the Indus, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Yangtze. According to the principles of landscaping, it is made of Indo-Astra plates colliding in the Asian plate. The first rise in the construction of the Himalayas took place 650 million years ago and the rise of the Central Himalayas 450 million years ago are some important religious sites in the Himalayas. Among them are Haridwar, Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gomukh, Dev Prayag, Rishikesh, Kailash, Mansarovar and Amarnath. It is also mentioned in the Indian scripture Gita (Gita: 10.25).
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