Editing Godavari River (section)

===Within Andhra Pradesh===
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Within the state of [[Andhra Pradesh]], the river flows through hilly terrain of the [[Eastern Ghats]] known as the [[Papi Hills|Papi hills]] which explains the narrowing of its bed as it flows through a gorge for a few km, only to re-widen at [[Polavaram, West Godavari district|Polavaram]]. The deepest bed level of a submarine [[plunge pool]] in Godavari River, located 36&nbsp;km upstream of Polavaram dam, is at 45 meters below the sea level.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Polavaram-project-report-NGT.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916232941/http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Polavaram-project-report-NGT.pdf |archive-date=16 September 2020 |url-status=live|title=Polavaram project studies by NGT (page 56)|access-date=1 October 2020}}</ref> Before crossing the Papi hills, it receives its last major tributary [[Sabari River]] on its left bank. The river upon reaching the plains begins to widen out until it reaches [[Rajahmundry|Rajamahendravaram]]. [[Arma Konda]] ({{convert|1680|m|ft|abbr=on}}) is the highest peak in the Godavari river basin as well as in Eastern Ghats.<ref name="Pletcher2013">{{cite book | author=Kenneth Pletcher | title=The Geography of India: Sacred and Historic Places | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mjr0X-8jrLAC&pg=PA28| date=2010 | publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group| isbn=978-16-1530-142-3 | pages=28}}</ref>

[[Dowleswaram Barrage]] was constructed across the river in Rajamahendravaram. At Rajamahendravaram, the Godavari splits into two large branches which are called Gautami (Gautami Godavari) and Vasishta Godavari and five smaller branches.  Similarly, the Vasishta splits into two branches named Vasishta and Vainateya. These four branches which join the [[Bay of Bengal]] at different places, form a delta of length {{convert|170|km|mi|abbr=on}} along the coast of the Bay of Bengal and is called the [[Konaseema]] region. This delta along with the delta of the [[Krishna River]] is called the ''Rice Granary'' of [[South India]].<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/2554303|title=Holocene environmental changes of the Godavari Delta, east coast of India, inferred from sediment core analyses and AMS 14C dating|first1=Kakani|last1=Nageswara Rao|first2=Kakani Nageswara|last2=Rao|first3=Yoshiki|last3=Saito|first4=K. Ch V.|last4=Nagakumar|first5=G.|last5=Demudu|first6=N.|last6=Basavaiah|first7=A. S.|last7=Rajawat|first8=Fuyuki|last8=Tokanai|first9=Kazuhiro|last9=Kato|first10=Rei|last10=Nakashima|journal=Geomorphology|year=2012|volume=175–176|pages=163–175|doi=10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.07.007|bibcode=2012Geomo.175..163N |via=www.academia.edu}}</ref>