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The Satpura Range is a range of hills in central India. The range rises in eastern Gujarat running east through the border of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and ends in Chhattisgarh . The range parallels the Vindhya Range to the north, and these two east–west ranges divide Indian Subcontinent into the Indo-Gangetic plain of northern India and ...
Mount Dhupgarh or Mount Dhoopgarh is the highest point in the Mahadeo Hills (Satpura Range), Madhya Pradesh, India. Located in Pachmarhi in Hoshangabad district, it has an elevation of 1,352 metres (4,436 ft). The top of the hill is a popular area to watch sunsets. Pachmarhi Hill station is located close to the peak. [1]
Satpura Tiger Reserve is a tiger reserve located in the Narmadapuram district of Madhya Pradesh in India.Its name is derived from the Satpura range.It covers total area of 2,133 km 2 (824 sq mi), comprises of 524 km 2 (202 sq mi) of Satpura National Park, 646 km 2 (249 sq mi) of Bori Wildlife Sanctuary and Pachmarhi wildlife sanctuaries in the central Indian highland ecosystem.
[5] [8] The Varaha Purana uses the name "Vindhya-pada" ("foot of the Vindhyas") for the Satpura range. Several ancient Indian texts and inscriptions (e.g. the Nasik Prasasti of Gautamiputra Satakarni) mention three mountain ranges in Central India: Vindhya (or "Vindhya proper"), Rksa (also Rksavat or Riksha) and Pariyatra (or Paripatra).
Vindhya range, lies north of Satpura range and east of Aravali range, runs across most of central India, extending 1,050 km (650 mi). [26] The average elevation of these hills is from 300 to 600 m (980 to 1,970 ft) and rarely goes above 700 metres (2,300 ft). [ 26 ]
NASA satellite photo of South India, 31 January 2003.. The Geography of South India comprises the diverse topological and climatic patterns of South India.South India is a peninsula in the shape of a vast inverted triangle, bounded on the west by the Arabian Sea, on the east by the Bay of Bengal and on the north by the Vindhya and Satpura ranges.
The Deccan is a plateau extending over an area of 422,000 km 2 (163,000 sq mi) and occupies the majority of the Indian peninsula.It stretches from the Satpura and Vindhya Ranges in the north to the northern fringes of Tamil Nadu in the south.
The Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve is a non-use conservation area and biosphere reserve in the Satpura Range of Madhya Pradesh state in Central India. [1] The conservation area was created in 1999 by the Indian government. It also contains animals from the Himalayan mountains and from the lower Western Ghats. UNESCO designated it a biosphere ...