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Kali River (Karnataka)

The Kali River or Kalinadi is a river flowing through Karwar, Uttara Kannada district Karnataka state in India. The river takes its birth in Diggi, a small village in Uttar Kannada district. The river is the lifeline to some 4 lakhe people in the Uttara Kannada district and supports livelihoods of thousands of people including fishermen on the coast of Karwar.There are many dams built across this river for the generation of electricity. One of the important Dams build across Kali river is the Supa Dam in Ganeshgudi. The river extends to 184 kilometers before joining Arabian Sea.

Significant and picturesque, the Sadashivgad fort is now a popular tourist destination located by the Kali river bridge, which has been built at the confluence of the river and the Arabian Sea.

The National Highway NH-17 continues on the Kali Bridge built over Kali River and the road continues to split the Sadashivgad granite rock hill to connect Karnataka to Goa.

Origin and Course

The river has its origin at Diggi in the Western Ghats and flows westwards to join the Arabian Sea near the town of Karwar. The river flows mostly through the district of Uttara Kannada, earlier called North Canara. The river has tributaries, Upper Kaneri and Tattihalla.

Our Ancestors believe that Surpanaka saw Rama in the forest, while he was in exile, accompanied by his wife Sita and his brother Laxmana, and fell in love with him. She transformed herself into a beautiful woman and tried to get Rama to marry her, but he refused, since he was already married to Sita. Enraged, she resumed her natural form and tried to kill Sita. Laxmana defeated her in battle, but, obedient to Rama's command, he did not kill her. Instead, he cut off her nose and ears, deeming the humiliation sufficient punishment for her attempt to kill Sita. So this place was named Supa . at this celebration of Lord Rama’s festive began. There was a river named Kali in supa. Due to the continuous flow of river Kali , Geotechnical engineer decided to buid a dam across it to generate electricity. People residing in supa were asked to shift to neighborhood town named Ramnagar because construction of supa dam would result drowning of whole supa town. By humanity aspect, one of the member in each family was offered Job. 

Now the place Across supa dam named Gameshgudi

Supa Dam is built across Kalinadi (Kannada) or Kali river in state of Karnataka in India. The dam is situated in Joida taluk of Uttara Kannada district. The power house at the foot of the dam has two electricity generators of fifty megawatt each. The electricity generated is supplied to different parts of Karnataka. The dam was built by Hindustan Steel Works Corporation Limited (HSCL) and is now operated by Karnataka Power Corporation Limited. The power house was commissioned in 1985.

The construction started in 1974 and ended in 1987. It has a gross storage capacity of 4178 Mcum and a live storage of 4115.25 Mcum of water. It is designed having two generators of 55 MVA and has a generator voltage of 11KV. The entire generator output accounts for 100 MW of electricity with 2916 Terminal Amp/unit and a line voltage of 110 KV. They generate about 542 Million Units annually. The output four lines of the grid are distributed between the substations at Ponda and Ambewadi equally. It is a concrete gravity dam with a height of 101m and width of 332m with 3 radial gates of 15m x 10m dimension and has vertical Francis turbines with a design head of 72 m.

One of the super hit kannada film ‘Dharani mandala madhyadolage’ was fully shooted on supa dam premises. One more interesting thing was, during this particular film shooting supa dam construction was in progress. And some of the English, kannada ,hindi move shoted hear    Real TV's reality show ‘ Pyate Mandi Kadige Bandru’ was shooted at moulangi which is surrounded by Kali river And dense forest  near Dandeli.

Kali River is famous for water rafting.

Jungle safari is very good one can spot tiger if lucky. There are many temples in Ganeshgudi like, Hanuman temple, ayyappa temple, Marikamba Temple, Basaveshwar temple , Kaleshwara temple . 1 police station is also there, There are 2 project schools, KHEP Primary School and KHEP High School. One Big Play ground is also there Many cricket tournament Held here. Separate Clubs are also there for Ladies and Gents. Multi Gym is also here. communication Networks like BSNL,AIRTEL,RELIANCE,VODAFONE,IDEA  also available here.

Places of Interest :

Temples

Back water view

Gardens

Jungle safaris

water rafting

View point  which is about 1 km from Ganeshgudi offers a splendid panoramic view of supa dam. Kali River is famous for herbal content in water which pass through walli  click hear

Back water view

Dam  has a gross storage capacity of 4178 Mcum and a live storage of 4115.25 M cum of water.  The tremendous  view sun set point is famous  image click hear