About the Western Ghats

The Western Ghats (Sahyadri Hills) of peninsular India is a mountain range that runs 16,00 kilometers north south. It has a strikingly unique evolutionary and geological history. The Western Ghats is rich in its biodiversity and new findings are emerging from this area from time to time. This mountain range covers an area of about 160,000 km2 from India's southern tip in Mahendragiri hils in Kanyakumari District to Tapti river basin in Gujarat in north. The long run of the Western Ghats is interrupted in only one place; a 30 kilometer gap in its southern range (Palghat gap). The Western Ghats is one of the world's ten 'richest biodiversity hotspots' and has over 5200 species of flowering plants, 139 mammal species, 508 bird species and over 200 amphibian species.
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