Gomukh, also spelled Gaumukh, is the terminus, or snout, of the Gangotri Glacier and the source of the Bhagirathi River, in Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand, India, at an elevation of about 4,023 meters. Its name means mouth of a cow in Hindi and related languages, describing the shape of the ice cave from which meltwater emerges, and it lies about 18 kilometers from the town of Gangotri along the Chota Char Dham pilgrimage route linking Gangotri to Kedarnath. As a headwater of the Bhagirathi, a principal tributary of the Ganga, it is a significant Hindu pilgrimage site, but the glacier snout is retreating rapidly, having withdrawn roughly 1.5 kilometers since the 1950s. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Glaciation via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Glaciology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
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- Also in Geography Atlas: India, found in there.
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Gomukh, also known as "Gaumukh" or "Gomukhi" (Hindi: गौमुख or गौमुखी ; Assamese and Bengali: গোমুখ or গোমুখী), is the terminus or snout of the Gangotri Glacier and the source of the Bhagirathi River, one of the primary headstreams of the Ganga River.
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