Delhi Ridge-2 Traditional Geocache
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Access to the cache must be from Sardar Patel Marg. You cannot reach the cache from Buddah Jayanti Park. The Delhi Ridge, a 35 kilometer section along the northern and western edge of Delhi, is a northern extension of the Aravalli Range. The ridge consists of quartzite rocks and extends from the Southeast at Tughlaqabad, near the Bhatti mines, branching out in places and tapering off in the north near Wazirabad on the west bank of the river Yamuna. The Delhi ridge is the green lungs for the city and protects it from the hot winds of the Aeolian deserts of Rajasthan to the west. The Aravalli Range, literally meaning 'line of peaks', is a range of mountains in western India and eastern Pakistan running approximately 800 km from northeast to southwest across the states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Gujarat and Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh. These mountains are estimated to be some 1.5 billion years old (compared to just 50 million for the Himalaya). The northern end of the range continues as isolated hills and rocky ridges into the Indian state of Haryana, ending near Delhi. The southern end is at Palanpur near Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The highest peak is Guru Shikhar in Mount Abu. Rising to 5653 feet (1723 meters), it lies near the southwestern extremity of the range, close to the border with the Gujarat District. The city of Udaipur with its lakes lies on the south slope of the range in Rajasthan. Numerous rivers arise amidst the ranges including, Banas River, Luni River, Sakhi, Sabarmati River.
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