Peninsular Plateaus India

The Peninsular Plateaus are the largest of India's physical divisions. It mainly comprises broad and shallow valleys with rounded hills.

Peninsular Plateaus India

1 Shillong Plateau:

• It is a part of the Peninsular Deccan Plateau
• It is made of Garo, Khasi, and Jaintia hills
• It is the home ground of Shillong city
• Mawsynram (the world's highest rainfall receiving point) is situated here

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2 Chhotanagpur Plateau:

It covers the NE part of the Peninsular Plateau including Jharkhand, parts of Chhatisgarh, and West Bengal.

• Its highest peak is Parasnath
• It is famous as Patland plateau
• It is also known as Rohr of India because of the presence of large mineral deposits

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3 Malwa Plateau:

It is located the north of the Narmada rift valley and it is a part of a central highland made up of granite and gneiss.

• It is a dissected lava plateau covered with black soil
• It is famous for cotton cultivation
• The river Chambal and its tributaries turned the northern part of it into a badland

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4 Deccan Plateau:

• It is the largest plateau of the Indian peninsula
• It lies to the south of river Tapi
• It is majorly a lava region made up of basalt
• The erosion of basalt has led to the formation of black soil
• It is also famous for cotton cultivation



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5 Telangana Plateau:

It is located to the north of river Krishna and is a part of the Deccan plateau.

• It lies in the rain shadow of the southwest monsoon
• It mainly has dry thorn forests

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6 Karnataka Plateau:

It is located to the south of the Deccan lava region and is built on the Malnad region in the west and Raichur Maidan in the east.

• The Bababudan hills that are famous for iron ores are located here

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7 Bundelkhand Plateau:

• It is spread along the borders of UP and MP

The extensive erosional activities of river Chambal and its tributaries have transformed it into ravines.

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8 Dandakaranya Plateau:

• This plateau contains igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Archean period
• It is spreading in parts of Chhatisgarh and Orissa
• The Gond tribes live largely in this area
• River Mahanadi and Indravati flows through this plateau