Bayalu Seeme
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Bayaluseeme or Bayalu Seeme is the area lying to the east of
.Topography
Bayalu Seeme has a gently rolling surface, punctuated by several of the large rivers that rise in the Western Ghats and flow eastward to empty into the Bay of Bengal.[1] It is often subdivided into the northern and southern Bayalu Seeme.
Northern Bayalu Seeme
Northern Bayalu Seeme is a dry, mostly treeless expanse of plateau, its elevation being between 300 and 700 meters. It covers
Southern Bayalu Seeme
Southern Bayalu Seeme, also known as the Southern Karnataka Plateau, is made up of the low rolling granite hills from 600 to 900 meters elevation. It is bounded on the west by the Western Ghats and on the south and east by ranges of hills, and on the north it drops to the lower-elevation northern Maidan. The plateau is drained by the
Vegetation
Bayalu Seeme lies in the rain shadow of the
See also
- Bangalore Division
- Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary
- Kaveri River
References
- ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 376, 379.
- ^ a b "A Terrible Struggle". The Sydney Mail. 21 December 1889. Retrieved 29 December 2016.