Jhelum River - झेलम नदी

One of the few rivers that have their origin in Kashmir itself, Jhelum River is a beauty in itself. The river originates in Vernag, shooting out from a spring. Vernag is located at lower Pir Pinjal in Kashmir Valley. The River Jhelum starts from Kashmir, flows through a long stretch of Jammu before finally surrendering itself to the Indus River.

Since the Jhelum River crosses both the regions of the state, it enjoys an immense importance among the various Rivers & Lakes of Jammu and Kashmir. Not only Jammu and Kashmir, the river flows through the state of Punjab and enters Pakistan also.

Over the years the Jhelum River has emerged as a major tourism attraction. The Mangla Dam built on the river is one of the largest earth-fill dams and a great tourist destination. The Jhelum River bifurcates the beautiful Srinagar city into two parts. The wonderful lakes of the city are mostly fed by water from Jhelum.

The River Jhelum in its path takes the form of a stream and act as lovely camping sites for campers and trekkers. The nine bridges over the river Jhelum, which were built long ago, also serve as hot tourism sites. You must visit these places to feel the real essence of the areas.

The Jhelum flows from the spring known as Verinag, 80-km south of Srinagar. This wide, swift flowing, muddy but picturesque river sweeps through Srinagar and is famed for its nine old bridges among many things else.

Jehlam, a river of northern India. It is the most westerly of the "five rivers" of the Punjab. It rises in the north-east of the Kashmir state, flows through the city of Srinagar and the Wular lake, issues through the Pir Panjal range by the narrow pass of Baramula, and enters British territory in the Jhelum district. Thence it flows through the plains of the Punjab, forming the boundary between the Jech Doab and the Sind Sagar Doab, and finally joins the Chenab at Timmu after a course of 450 miles. The Jhelum colony, in the Shahpur district of the Punjab, formed on the example of the Chenab colony in 1901, is designed to contain a total irrigable area of 1,130,000 acres. The Jhelum canal is a smaller work than the Chenab canal, but its silt is noted for its fertilizing qualities. Both projects have brought great prosperity to the cultivators.

Its westernmost of the five rivers in the Punjab that ultimately drain into the Indus River in Pakistan.

The Jhelum rises from a deep spring at Vernag, in the Indian-held sector of Jammu and Kashmir state. The river meanders northwestward from the northern slope of the Pir Panjal Range through the Vale of Kashmir to Wular Lake, which controls its flow. Emerging from the…