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Sutlej

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Sutlej , longest of the five rivers of the Punjab , c.900 mi (1,450 km) long, rising in the Kailas Range, SW Tibet region of China, and flowing generally west, meandering through the Himalayas in India, then onto the Punjab plain where it receives the Beas River and forms part of the India-Pakistan border; continuing into Pakistan, it is joined by the Chenab River (which received the Jhelum and Ravi rivers). The combined stream, the Panjnad, channels the collected waters of all five rivers of the Punjab into the Indus River. The Sutlej is extensively used for irrigation; many large canals branch from it. Bhakra Dam (750 ft/229 m) in Punjab state, N India, impounds water for irrigation and power production (450,000-kW capacity). Until the Sikh Wars in the 1840s, the Sutlej was the border between the Sikh and British spheres of influence.

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Sutlej

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Sutlej, Tibet‐India‐Pakistan Zaradros A river, one of the five that gives Punjab its name, known to the Ancient Greeks as Zaradros. Its present name is derived from the Sanskrit satadru ‘flowing in a hundred channels’.

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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Sutlej." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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Sutlej

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Sutlej a river of northern India and Pakistan which rises in the Himalayas in SW Tibet. It is one of the five rivers that gave Punjab its name.

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	India spills more water in Sutlej. Newspaper article from: The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan); 8/24/2011
	Sutlej swells as India releases more water. Newspaper article from: The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan); 9/26/2010
	Sutlej wreaks more havoc in Punjab. Newspaper article from: The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan); 8/25/2011