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Chenab

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Chenab (chēnäb`), one of the "five rivers" of the Punjab, 675 mi (1,086 km) long, rising in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh and flowing NW through the Kashmir Himalayas, then SW through Pakistani Punjab to join the Sutlej River. The Ravi and Jhelum rivers are the chief tributaries. The Chenab supplies water for an important irrigation system.
Chenab
a river rising in the Himalayas and flowing southwest to the Sutlej River in Pakistan. Length: 1087 km (675 miles)


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During the 1980s India built a 600-kilometre-long double fence (more than five times longer than the Berlin Wall and almost as long as the planned 644-kilometre Israel Wall), running from the Chenab River near Jammu to the edge of Rajasthan, some of it electrified, with searchlights on watch towers.
 
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