The Beas River is a major tributary of Indus river in north India
The River rises on the southern face of Rohtang Pass in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh.
It flows for some 470 kilometres to the Sutlej River in the Indian state of Punjab (At Harike).
The river was also known as Arjikuja of the Vedas, or Vipasa to the ancient Indians, and the Hyphasis to the Ancient Greeks.
The main tributaries are Bain, Banganga, Uhlal, Awa, Banner, Chakki, Gaj, Harla, Mamuni, Parvati, Patlikuhlal, Sainj, Suketi and Tirthan.
The tributaries that branch out in the Northern part are snow fed and hence, perennial.
The tributaries down the South are seasonal and get their water from the rains.
The Indus river dolphin, a species of freshwater dolphin, is endemic to the Indus River basin in Pakistan and Beas River in northwestern India
The Pong Dam, also known as the Beas Dam, is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Beas River
The raised water level thus invariably created an artificial lake called the Maharana Pratap Sagar, after the great ruler of Mewar
The Indus water Treaty (1960) gives control over the waters of the three "eastern rivers" — the Beas, Ravi and Sutlej to India, while control over the waters of the three "western rivers" — the Indus, Chenab and Jhelum to Pakistan.
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