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West-Central India, April 1994. The Kathiawar Peninsula, the sizable promontory
jutting into the Arabian Sea, is bounded on the southeast by the sediment-laden
Gulf of Khambhat and on the northwest by the Gulf of Kutch. The highly
reflective area north of the Gulf of Kutch is the Great Rann of Kutch, a very
large salt marsh that forms the border between India and southeastern Pakistan.
The Great Rann of Kutch and the Kathiawar Peninsula comprise more than 75
percent of the west-central state of Gujarat. The Kathiawar Peninsula is
relatively level terrain with a slightly elevated central tableland from which
all rivers arise and radiate outward. Cotton is the area’s leading crop. The
overall brown appearance in this springtime photograph confirms that the region
deserves the tropical savanna climate classification and that the area is almost
totally dependent on the monsoons for rainfall for the entire year. The
Kathiawar Peninsula is also the home of the endangered Indian lion (NASA, image
left).
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